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Are explicit performatives assertions?

✍ Scribed by Mark Jary

Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Weight: 256 KB
Volume: 30
Category: Article
ISSN: 0165-0157
DOI: 10.1007/s10988-007-9015-9

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