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Synthese, 2001
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Asher, Nicholas, Lascarides, Alex
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Local grammars and diachronic speech act analysis
, 2020This paper proposes a method that is designed to facilitate diachronic speech act analysis. The proposed method draws on the corpus linguistic concept of local grammar – an approach which seeks to account for, not the whole of a language, but one meaning
Hang Su
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This Element outlines current issues in the study of speech acts. It starts with a brief outline of four waves of speech act theory, that is, the philosophical, the experimental, the corpus-based and the discursive approaches. It looks at some of the early experimental and corpus-based methods and discusses their more recent developments as a ...
Mingyou Xiang, Mian Jia, Xiaohui Bu
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Mingyou Xiang, Mian Jia, Xiaohui Bu
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Language and Speech, 2020
The prosody of non-assertive speech acts other than questions is rather underexplored. Very little is known about the role of information structure in non-assertive speech acts in general.
Sophie Repp
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The prosody of non-assertive speech acts other than questions is rather underexplored. Very little is known about the role of information structure in non-assertive speech acts in general.
Sophie Repp
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A pragmatic analysis of the speech act of criticizing in university teacher-student talk
Pragmatics: Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association, 2019The current study examined the realization of the speech act of criticizing by university teachers in their talk with students. To this end, role-plays were conducted with 60 university teachers (30 males and 30 females) at a private Saudi university ...
D. El‐Dakhs +3 more
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What is an indirect speech act?
, 2019The 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.
J. Meibauer
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Nominal speech act structure: Evidence from the structural deficiency of impersonal pronouns
Canadian Journal of Linguistics-revue Canadienne De Linguistique, 2019In this paper, we propose that there is a speech-act structure in the nominal spine, just as there is in the clausal spine. Its function is to encode what we do when we utter a nominal: that is, we name, describe, or track individuals.
E. Ritter, Martina Wiltschko
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2018
Making a statement may be the paradigmatic use of language, but there are all sorts of other things we can do with words. We can make requests, ask questions, give orders, make promises, give thanks, offer apologies and so on. Moreover, almost any speech act is really the performance of several acts at once, distinguished by different aspects of the ...
Daniel W. Harris +2 more
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Making a statement may be the paradigmatic use of language, but there are all sorts of other things we can do with words. We can make requests, ask questions, give orders, make promises, give thanks, offer apologies and so on. Moreover, almost any speech act is really the performance of several acts at once, distinguished by different aspects of the ...
Daniel W. Harris +2 more
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Educational Review, 1976
Abstract Methods of analysing language function will differ according to the interests and purposes of the analyst. In spite of the lack of consensus in this area and the fluidity of some of the concepts involved, attention to language function is very rewarding in education.
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Abstract Methods of analysing language function will differ according to the interests and purposes of the analyst. In spite of the lack of consensus in this area and the fluidity of some of the concepts involved, attention to language function is very rewarding in education.
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