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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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Speech Acts and the Pragmatic Deficits of Autism

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1988
In a videotaped free-play session with a parent, autistic children were compared with mental-age matched Developmental Language Delay (DLD) children and with normally developing (ND) 2-year-olds in the use of communicative acts by parent and child. Groups were matched for language level.
K A, Loveland, S H, Landry, S O, Hughes, S K, Hall, R E, McEvoy   +4 more
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Balancing Acts: Maternal Pragmatism

2012
The third major strategy evident in women’s reflections on motherhood can be described as pragmatist. Women who inhabit the role in this way are guided less by a commitment to rational planning or alternatively the expression of inner selfhood, and more by the demands of the particular situations they find themselves in as they go about mothering. This
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Language-Game: Calculus or Pragmatic Act?

2013
We have tried to make the potentiality inherent in the concept of the linguistic game evident by taking it back to its original context in the work of Wittgenstein. This paper aims to re-examine some features of Wittgenstein’s thought, considering in particular the notion of ‘language-game’.
Marco Carapezza, Pierluigi Biancini
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Pragmatics: Order in Speech Acts

2020
Similar to ethnomethodology (and CA), the pragmatic tradition in the philosophy of language and linguistics, especially SAT, also seeks to study the ‘order’ instead of formalistic representations of the language system in language use. In this chapter, I will examine how order is represented in the pragmatic tradition.
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Sound acts: towards a sonic pragmatism

Sound Studies, 2020
The article makes a case for a pragmatist approach to sound studies. My starting point is the ostensible lack of language for analysing the agentic, creative and expressive aspects of sound outside...
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Speech Act Theory and Pragmatics

1980
Semantic Structure and Illocutionary Force.- Perlocutions.- Pragmatic Entailment and Questions.- Surface Compositionality and the Semantics of Mood.- Yes-No Questions as Wh-Questions.- Syntactic Meanings.- Situational Context and Illocutionary Force.- Semantics and Pragmatics of Sentence Connectives in Natural Language.- Some Remarks on Explicit ...
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The Linguistic Pragmatics of Terrorist Acts

Discourse & Society, 1991
This paper applies the principles of linguistic pragmatics to a selected example of political debate. Specific pragmatic constructs are located and described (conversational implicature/presupposition), with evidence for their theoretical validity provided.
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