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indirect speech: a standalone construct

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Psycholinguistics

saying things indirectly, such as veiled bribes or threats, to allow plausible deniability and manage relationship types.

In psycholinguistics, indirect speech refers to saying things indirectly, such as veiled bribes or threats, to allow plausible deniability and manage relationship types. This meaning comes from Pinker (2008) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]

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  1. Pinker, S., Nowak, M. A., & Lee, J. J. (2008). The logic of indirect speech. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(3), 833-838. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0707192105

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