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

Journal 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 interpretation of Indirect Speech Acts in relevance theory

THE JOURNAL OF LINGUISTIC AND INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION, 2010
Despite being mentioned by most textbooks on semantics and pragmatics, only very little research on indirect speech acts has been published since the beginning of the 1980s 1 . One possibility, one might speculate, is that its advocates, predominantly Searle (1979: 30-59) and Bach & Harnish (1979: 173-202), have said everything on the subject that ...
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A (contingent) content–parthood analysis of indirect speech reports

Mind and Language, 2021
Alex Davies
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