assertive

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Sources

• SEARLE 1979 12-13

  SEARLE, John R. (1979) Expression & Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• COLLINGE 1990 179

  COLLINGE, N. E. (1990) An Encyclopaedia of Language. London: Routledge.

• MATTHEWS 1997 28

  MATTHEWS, P.H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.