Genetic Bragging as a Speech Act: From Fictional to Non-fictional Discourse

The fast and consistent progress in DNA research has lead us to vent the possibility that bragging about one’s own genetic endowment is bound to become a linguistic practice with economic and social entailments. The family resemblance approach (Kleiber 1999) was used to shape what we dubbed here “ge...

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Main Authors: Sergio Pizziconi, Walter Giordano, Laura Di Ferrante
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: LED - Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto 2018-07-01
Series:Lingue Culture Mediazioni
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Online Access:http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/LCM-Journal/article/view/1338