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INDIRECT SPEECH ACTS - Odt
INDIRECT SPEECH ACTS - Odt
[1]
[Peggy and Al are giving the kids their dental check-ups and plan on forging the forms]
STEVE: Uh, excuse me, but doesn't anybody know that this is against the law?
Marcy turns to Steve, puts her hands on her hips and bends down and talks to him, remarkably resembling a
chicken.
[2]
LEONARD: Okay, I understand your impulse to try to physically intimidate me. I mean, you cant compete
with me on an intellectual level and so youre driven to animalistic puffery.
PENNY: Of course not, no, hes not, youre not, right Leonard?
LEONARD: No, I said animalistic. Of course were all animals, but some of us have climbed a little higher
on the evolutionary tree.
House: Sorry, I didnt know you wanted your kid dead. Although for a couple of G's, I can still make it
happen.
[7]
"(i) How you uh, how you comin' on that big novel you've been working on for 3 years? (ii) Nice little
narrative? Beginning, middle, and end? Some friends become enemies, some enemies become friends? At
the end your main character is richer from the experience?
(Family Guy)