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From: https://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-4222.html

Literary writers, with their politeness norms, modal expressions, and handling of deixis, utilize the same interpersonal functions of language as other language users do. Therefore, this book proposes, writers tap into the same pragmatic procedures and functions as social individuals. In this evaluation of literary pragmatics, the author also re-asses works of major authors including Dickens and Chaucer.

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