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Responding to indirect speech acts

Cognitive Psychology, 1979
Abstract 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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Service Robots Dealing with Indirect Speech Acts

2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2006
Successful interaction between a service robot and its human users depends on the robot's ability to understand not only direct commands, but also more indirect ways for a human to express what she would like the robot to do. Such indirect ways are pervasive in human-human interaction; enabling the robot to understand them can make human-robot ...
Sabrina Wilske, Geert-jan Kruijff
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What is an indirect speech act?

Pragmatics & Cognition, 2019
AbstractThe 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. In recent years, two debates about indirect speech acts have stood out. First, a debate about the Searlean idea that
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Indirect speech act trach (reproach) in Vietnamese

Journal of Science Social Science, 2020
A speech act may be used in the direct or indirect form depending on the speaker's goal and intention. Indirect speech acts can be flexibly used according to user's intentions. Some indirect speech acts are more polite than the direct ones. These are the advantages of indirect speech acts.
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Conventionalization in indirect speech acts

2011
This chapter examines what the pragmatic skills of autistic individuals suggest about the claim by Sadock (1970, 1972) and others that questions like “Can you pass the salt” are conventionalized for use as indirect requests. A review of the autism literature indicates that the primary pragmatic deficit in autism is in reading speakers’ minds.
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Indirect speech act metaphtonymies and diagrammatic iconicity

2002
Traditional view has it that tropes are hardly anything more than just poetic figures, the whole classical complex téchn&#275 ; thus being reduced to just ornatus. Conceptual metaphor and metonymy, however, enjoy a central position in Cognitive linguistics as fundamental backbones of cognitive processes, linking human thought, language and action ...
Brdar, Mario, Brdar-Szabó, Rita
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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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Indirect speech acts in English

2013
The article deals with indirect speech acts in Englishspeaking discourse. Different approaches to their analysis and the reasons for their use are discussed. It is argued that the choice of the form of speech actsdepends on the parameters of communicative partners.
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On the Arguments for Indirect Speech Acts

Philosophia, 2017
The usual treatment of a dinner table utterance of ‘Can you pass the salt?’ is that it involves an indirect request to pass the salt as well as a direct question about the hearer’s ability to do so: an indirect speech act. These are held to involve two illocutionary forces and two illocutionary acts.
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Some problems in planning indirect speech acts

ACM SIGART Bulletin, 1978
A competence theory of speech acts should account at least for the relationship between the intentions and beliefs of the speaker of an utterance (including his beliefs about his hearer's beliefs and intentions), and the form of the utterance. What utterances can be used in what contexts to convey what intentions?
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