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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Words uttered underdetermine speech act performed: comic

Another xkcd about pragmatics.


Posted by nick at 10:00 am
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Labels: comic strip, politeness, pragmatics, semantic underdeterminacy, speech act, XKCD

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