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We Shall Be Watching You, You're Going to Die, and Other Threats: A Corpus-Based Speech Act Approach
(Linguistics & TESOL, 2010-11-17)Using a speech act approach, this paper examines the similarities and differences between English-language threats made by terrorists and those made by non-terrorists, with a focus on pronoun use and sentence-type. Both ...