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Multimodal repair in the semiotic landscape for social and political commentary. [PDF]

open access: yesMultimodality Soc
Firoozkohi AH   +3 more
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Is commenting an expositive illocutionary act?

Pragmatics and Cognition
Abstract The paper outlines an analysis of the act of commenting within the author’s Austin-inspired speech-act theoretical framework. The general lines of that framework are concisely expounded, and it is suggested that the act of commenting should be described as belonging to Austin’s Expositives. The preliminary problem whether the act of commenting
Marina Sbisa, Sbisa Marina
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A classification of illocutionary acts

Language in Society, 1976
ABSTRACTThere are at least a dozen linguistically significant dimensions of differences between illocutionary acts. Of these, the most important are illocutionary point, direction of fit, and expressed psychological state. These three form the basis of a taxonomy of the fundamental classes of illocutionary acts.
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Expressive illocutionary acts

Journal of Pragmatics, 1978
Abstract The illocutionary acts classified as expressives in Searle (1976) are further analysed. The members of the class are determined and parameters which differentiate them are sought. The notion of the social function of an illocutionary act is introduced.
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Embedding Illocutionary Acts

2014
Speech acts have sometimes been considered as not embeddable, for principled reasons. In this paper, I argue that illocutionary acts can be embedded under certain circumstances. I provide for a semantic interpretation of illocutionary acts as functions from world/time indices to world/time indices, which provides them with a semantic type, and allows ...
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Pictorial Illocutionary Acts

1977
A picture, say of a man, can be used in an indefinite number of ways. It can be used to conjure up memories, to advertise the clothes that he wears, to inform an audience of a rare disease, or to give a visual description of the symptoms of infective hepatitis. It can be used as an object of worship, as a decoration; or again, it can be used to explain
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Discrimination and Illocutionary Acts

1999
In the preceding chapter, I suggested that the equal-opportunity argument in favour of hate-speech restrictions and pornography bans fails because banning hate speech and pornography does not improve communicative opportunities for vilified racial minorities or women.
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