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Pragmatics and speech act performance
2010Pragmatics, 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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The Linguistic Pragmatics of Terrorist Acts
Discourse & Society, 1991This 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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Speech acts in corpus pragmatics
International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 2020Abstract 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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European International Journal of Philological Sciences
This article investigates speech acts as the core explanatory construct of pragmatics, examining how illocutionary force, conventional form, contextual inference, and social normativity interact to produce action through language. Building on the foundations of Austin’s performative-constative distinction and Searle’s taxonomy, the study synthesizes ...
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This article investigates speech acts as the core explanatory construct of pragmatics, examining how illocutionary force, conventional form, contextual inference, and social normativity interact to produce action through language. Building on the foundations of Austin’s performative-constative distinction and Searle’s taxonomy, the study synthesizes ...
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Balancing Acts: Maternal Pragmatism
2012The 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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Pragmatics: Order in Speech Acts
2020Similar 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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Speech Act Theory and Pragmatics
1980Semantic 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 Pragmatics of Speech Acts in the Colloquia scholica
2022This paper offers a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the different types of speech acts in five colloquia from the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana. All the acts occurring in the texts are illustrated by means of selected examples, their relative frequency and distribution. The Colloquia provide the vocabulary and basic constructions to be used in
Fedriani, Chiara, Molinelli, Piera
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On Pragmatics, Exercitive Speech Acts and Pornography
Lodz Papers in Pragmatics, 2009Suppose that a suspect being questioned by the police says, “I think I’d better talk to a lawyer.” Whether that suspect has invoked her right to an attorney depends on which particular speech act(s) her utterance is. If she is merely thinking aloud about what she ought to do, then she has not invoked that right.
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Is the Endangered Species Act Eco-Pragmatic?
Minnesota Law Review, 2003The Article evaluates the Endangered Species Act using Dan Farber's theory of eco-pragmatism. Eco-pragmatism employs environmental baselines, a moderated precautionary principle, and adaptive management to mediate environmental policy issues. I conclude that the ESA reflects some of these attributes, but does not coherently assemble a truly eco ...
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