@article{oai:togaku.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000297,
 author = {Boon, Andrew},
 issue = {16},
 journal = {東洋学園大学紀要, Bulletin of Toyo Gakuen University},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {This article seeks to determine reasons for the miscommunication of a requestive hint within an authentic email exchange between two native speakers. It includes the analysis of the interaction from the perspectives of ⅰ) speech act theory, ⅱ) implicature, relevance, and prior email history between the two interlocutors, and ⅲ) politeness.},
 pages = {57--65},
 title = {Desperately seeking reassurance: analysing requestive hint miscommunication in an email exchange},
 year = {2008}
}