Sapuan, S.M. (Professor of Composite Materials, University Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia),Md Tahir, Paridah (Professor of Wood Adhesives and Finishing, Institute of Tropical Forestry and Forest P
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Can linguistic pragmatics be developed without the need to formulate rules, criteria or maxims? The author argues that rules as they have been conceived of within pragmatics, particularly speech act t
