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The Parameters of Indirect Speech
, 2020The language of indirect speech refers to two contexts in parallel: The real utterance context and the context of the utterance reported. The article analyzes how indexicals, tense, speaker oriented emotives and other items are interpreted in indirect ...
R. Eckardt
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What is an indirect speech act?
, 2019The notion of an indirect speech act is at the very heart of cognitive pragmatics, yet, after nearly 50 years of orthodox (Searlean) speech act theory, it remains largely unclear how this notion can be explicated in a proper way.
J. Meibauer
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ACM SIGART Bulletin, 1978
1. A characterization of the forms that may be used to convey particular speech acts.2. A description of mechanism(s) to relate surface forms to underlying speech acts.3. An account of the conversational implications of choosing a particular surface form.For a theory to adequately deal with indirect speech acts, it must contain at least the following ...
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1. A characterization of the forms that may be used to convey particular speech acts.2. A description of mechanism(s) to relate surface forms to underlying speech acts.3. An account of the conversational implications of choosing a particular surface form.For a theory to adequately deal with indirect speech acts, it must contain at least the following ...
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Emoji as gesture in digital communication: Emoji improve comprehension of indirect speech
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2023Patrick M. Hancock +3 more
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Direct and Indirect Speech Acts in Court Speeches
Journal of Namibian Studies : History Politics Culture, 2023Speech acts theory is not about words, phrases or sentences which are mainly used as units of interaction between people, but basically about actions that are achieved through such utterances. 'Speech acts theory' belongs to the realm of Pragmatics. In this study, selected stretches of discourse of two court speeches are highlighted.
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Responding to indirect speech acts
Cognitive Psychology, 1979Abstract Indirect speech acts, like the request Do you know the time?, have both a literal meaning, here “I ask you whether you know the time,” and an indirect meaning “I request you to tell me the time.” In this paper I outline a model of how listeners understand such speech acts and plan responses to them. The main proposals are these.
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Journal of Pragmatics, 2011
Abstract I discuss two recent articles (Pinker, Steven, Nowak, Martin, Lee, James, 2008. The logic of indirect speech. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (3), 833–838, and Lee, James, Pinker, Steven, 2010. Rationales for indirect speech: the theory of the strategic speaker. Psychological Review 117 (3), 785–807), in which the authors
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Abstract I discuss two recent articles (Pinker, Steven, Nowak, Martin, Lee, James, 2008. The logic of indirect speech. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (3), 833–838, and Lee, James, Pinker, Steven, 2010. Rationales for indirect speech: the theory of the strategic speaker. Psychological Review 117 (3), 785–807), in which the authors
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IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2018
T. Williams +3 more
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