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Does nonsense make sense? A springboard to studying dynamic reconfiguration of large-scale networks during semantic and intonation speech processing.

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Anurova I, Ciesla K, Amedi A.
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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
Jörg Meibauer
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Indirect Speech Acts

Synthese, 2001
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Asher, Nicholas, Lascarides, Alex
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Indirect Speech Acts

2021
To achieve successful communication, it is crucial to say clearly what we mean, but, at the same time, we need to pay attention to the form of our utterances, to avoid misunderstandings and the risk of offending our interlocutors. To avoid these pitfalls, we use a special category of utterances called 'indirect speech acts' (ISAs) that enable an ...
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Direct and Indirect Speech Acts in Court Speeches

Journal of Namibian Studies : History Politics Culture, 2023
Speech 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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Indirect speech acts

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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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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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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