literal

Sources

• NASH 1968 131

  NASH, Rose. (1968) Multilingual Lexicon of Linguistics and Philology: English, Russian, German, French. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press. 

• WALES 1989 277-278

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

• COLAPIETRO 1993 133-134 (also "literal usage")

  COLAPIETRO, Vincent M. (1993) Glossary of Semiotics. New York: Paragon House.

• SEARLE 1979 78 (literal utterance)

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

• ELL 5142

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

• CRYSTAL 2001 116 (literal language)

  CRYSTAL, David. (2001) A Dictionary of Language, 2nd Ed Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

• RICHARDS etal. 1992 306 (literal comprehension)

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