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Examines aspects of a conversation between Kanzi, a bonobo ape and a human, Sue Savage Rumbaugh in which Kanzi uses language to get Sue to do something she doesn't wan to do.

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Why is it important?

Kanzi initiates the interaction as a whole.

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This page is a summary of: Confrontation and support in bonobo-human discourse, Functions of Language, November 2002, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/fol.9.1.02ben.
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