Significant Works
- J. L. Austin's How To Do Things With Words
- Paul Grice's cooperative principle and conversational maxims
- Brown & Levinson's Politeness Theory
- Geoffrey Leech's politeness maxims
- Levinson's Presumptive Meanings
- Jürgen Habermas's universal pragmatics
- Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson's relevance theory
- Dallin D. Oaks's Structural Ambiguity in English: An Applied Grammatical Inventory
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