English Language A-Level

Speech acts and deixis

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Utterances perform actions such as promising, requesting or apologising, while deixis ties language to context through words like 'here', 'now' and 'you'.

AQA · Language, the individual and society - Methods of language analysis (study guide)

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Language, the individual and society - Methods of language analysis (AQA A-Level)

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