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Pragmatics and Dialogue Acts

2015
This chapter is intended to report our investigation into the pragmatic aspect of conversation. While discourse analysis of conversations has manifested intense interest in issues concerning power, inequality and ideology, the main stream of pragmatic analyses has been focusing on pragmatic markers such as interjections, conversational fillers, topic ...
Alex Chengyu Fang, Jing Cao
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Speech acts in corpus pragmatics

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 2020
Abstract In corpus pragmatics, most of the research into speech acts still tends to be limited to working with the original, highly abstract, speech-act taxonomies devised by ordinary language philosophers like Austin and Searle. The aim of this article is to illustrate how the use of such restricted taxonomies may lead to ...
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Pragmatics and speech act performance

2010
Pragmatics, a branch of linguistics which studies communicative actions in their sociocultural context, has been the focus of attention of a number of scholars over the last few decades (Rose & Kasper, 2001). Given the importance of this area of research to develop competent users of a given language, the present chapter first outlines its main ...
Alicia Martínez-Flor, Esther Usó-Juan
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PRAGMATICS AND SPEECH ACT THEORY

Galaxy International Interdisciplinary Research Journal, 2022
The steady development of science and technology in general, and linguistic science in particular, is linked not only to the resolution of current scientific problems, but also to state features such as internal and foreign policy, and the upkeep of state educational standards, all of which are generators of progress in a social and economic society ...
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The pragmatics of evidence discourse: Ostensive acts

2023
The process of juridical proof typically requires some ostensive act, consisting in the presentation of evidence to prove a claim. Building on previous work on the pragmatics of evidence discourse, this contribution concerns the dynamics of ostensive acts and has the purpose of clarifying how such acts work in the context of legal fact-finding ...
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