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Makaya, Pindi; Bloor, Thomas – 1987
Approaches used by linguists to examine the way in which speakers or writers modify their commitment to the propositional content of their utterances are discussed, and it is noted that a frequent criticism is the failure of inexperienced speakers or writers to modulate their utterances properly. This paper considers economic reports and in…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Attribution Theory, Discourse Analysis, Economics
