commissive

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Sources

• AUSTIN 1975 151

  AUSTIN, J.L. (1975) How to Do Things With Words, 2nd Edition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

• SEARLE 1979 14

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

• DIK I 1997 113

  DIK, Simon C. (1997) The Theory of Functional Grammar, Part 1, 2nd edition: The Structure of the Clause. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

• McLaughlin 1984 63-64

  McLAUGHLIN, Margaret L. (1984) Conversation: How Talk is Organized. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications.

• MATTHEWS 1997 61

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

• CRYSTAL 2003 84 (also "commissive utterance")

  CRYSTAL, David. (2003) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 5th Ed Oxford: Blackwell.

• RICHARDS etal. 1992 343

  RICHARDS, Jack, PLATT, J. & WEBER, H. (1992) Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching & Applied Linguistics. London: Longman.

• FINCH 2000 182

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