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Sources

• TRASK 1993 128

  TRASK, R. L. (1993) A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics. New York: Routledge.

• QUIRK etal. 1985 597-598

  QUIRK, Randolph, GREENBAUM, Sidney, LEECH, Geoffrey, & SVARTNIK, Jan. (1985) A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman.

• IEL Vol. I, 423

  International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. (1992) New York: Oxford University Press.

• WALES 1989 40-41

  WALES, Katie. (1989) A Dictionary of Stylistics. London: Longman. 

• ELL 4261

  The Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. (1994) Oxford: Pergamon Press.

• BROWN & LEVINSON 145ff.

  BROWN, Penelope & LEVINSON, Stephen C. (1987) Politeness: Some universals in language usage. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.

• LEECH 1983 140 (hedged performative)

  LEECH, Geoffrey N. (1983) Principles of Pragmatics. Longman: London.

• MATTHEWS 1997 160

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

• CRYSTAL 2003 216

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