Reflexive Language
Subtitle: Reported Speech and Metapragmatics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 26, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780521351645
Subjects: Language & Linguistics; Usage guides; Linguistics; Pragmatics; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Metalanguage; Language Arts & Disciplines / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Metalanguage Metalanguage; Indirect discourse; Grammar, Comparative and gener; Grammar, Comparative and general
First sentence: Human activity is saturated by speech and much of what is distinctive about the human species depends on the use of language.