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A game-theoretic analysis on the use of indirect speech acts [PDF]

open access: possibleJournal of Applied Non-Classical Logics, 2018
In this paper, I will discuss why in some circumstances people express their intentions indirectly: the use of Indirect Speech Acts (ISAs).
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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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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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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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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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The Logic of Indirect Insulting in Legal Discussions: A Speech Act Perspective

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
In discussions about the accusation of insulting, there is sometimes a disagreement space because the values underlying the protection against insulting have to be balanced against the value of free speech. Legal discussions about insulting often focus on the problems concerning this weighing and balancing of principles.
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Cognitive features of indirect speech acts

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2023
Isabella Boux   +2 more
exaly  

Contextual peculiarities of indirect speech acts

INNOVATIVE ASPECTS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF PHILOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 2023
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