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Speech acts and language teaching

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2008

John Flowerdew
John Flowerdew
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Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
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Language Teaching , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , April 1988 , pp. 69 - 82
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