Speaker's Intentions And Beliefs In Negative Imperatives
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I will focus on the latter part of the question, and I will try to provide an answer by taking what seems to me a necessary preliminary step, namely, by identifying the factors underlying the speaker's communicative intentions. Some of these factors have been identified for example by [LA90; Po186] as the beliefs and intentions that the speaker (S for short, and referred to with feminine pronouns) believes the hearer (H for short, and referred to with masculine pronouns) has prior to the current utterance, and the new ones H will adopt as a consequence of the utterance.
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تاریخ انتشار 1993