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Value Judgements as Expressive Speech Acts

1981
IF a value judgement is not a kind of constative speech act, that is, if I do not ascribe an objective characteristic to something in saying that it is good (or bad, correct or false, proper or improper, etc.), what am I doing when I evaluate something?
exaly   +2 more sources

Expressions, Speech Acts and Discourse

2023
First published in 1981, Let's Talk and Talk About It is regarded as a cornerstone of research in pragmatics, which laid new and lasting foundations for the teaching of English. Forty years on, this extensively updated version is fully tailored for the 21st century.
Willis J. Edmondson   +2 more
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Expressivity and Speech Acts

Abstract The study of verbal expressions through which speakers convey attitudes, feelings, or emotions toward people, objects, or situations can be approached from various perspectives. This chapter examines pejoratives and amelioratives, particularly slurs, through the lens of speech act theory, emphasizing the importance of ...
Maria Paola Tenchini, Aldo Frigerio
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Planning speech acts and referring expressions

ACM SIGART Bulletin, 1978
This talk focused on two problems: criteria for speech act definitions and a criterion for the initial choice of referring expressions. The first problem arises in defining speech acts in a form where they can be used - as operators in a (STRIPS-like) problem-solving system.
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The face of emotions: a logical formalization of expressive speech acts

International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2011
In this paper, we merge speech act theory, emotion theory, and logic. We propose a modal logic that integrates the concepts of belief, goal, ideal and responsibility and that allows to describe what a given agent expresses in the context of a conversation with another agent.
Nadine Guiraud   +4 more
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Emotional Expressions as Speech Act Analogs

Philosophy of Science, 2018
AbstractIn this article I articulate the Theory of Affective Pragmatics, which combines insights from the Basic Emotion View and the Behavioral Ecology View of emotional expressions. My core thesis is that emotional expressions are ways of manifesting one’s emotions but also of representing states of affairs, directing other people’s behaviors, and ...
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Expression Meaning, Conversation, and Indirect Speech Acts

Southwestern Journal of Philosophy, 1978
Il y a deux approches des actes de langage indirects: 1. ils sont ambigus et comportent un verbe performatif sous-jacent| 2. ils font appel a une "implicature conversationnelle" (Grice) et a une inference de l'auditeur. L'A. montre que 1 est insuffisante parce qu'incapable de rendre compte de l'inference, et 2 egalement parce qu'elle neglige l ...
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