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Speech Act Theory

2019
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A Causal Theory of Speech Acts

2017
In speech acts, a speaker utters sentences that might affect the belief state of a hearer. To formulate causal effects in assertive speech acts, we introduce a logical theory that encodes causal relations between speech acts, belief states of agents, and truth values of sentences.
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Speech Act Theory, Speech Acts, and the Analysis of Fiction

The Modern Language Review, 1993
La typologie des actes de paroles dans le dialogue de Polarities permet de mieux decrire la dynamique tragique de la communication entre les deux protagonistes de la nouvelle de M. Atwood.
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A DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY OF SPEECH ACT PRODUCTION*

Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1973
AbstractMost recent studies of language acquisition have emphasized the child's learning of the abstract syntactic and semantic structures of “linguistic competence.” This study analyzes linguistic acquisition in terms of the semantic‐pragmatic unit of the speech act.
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Is a diachronic speech act theory possible?

Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 2000
Lavoro sulla dimensione pragmatica nella storia della lingua: possibilità e limiti filologici per i testi ...
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Philosophy of Law and the Theory of Speech Acts*

Ratio Juris, 1988
Abstract. The object of this paper is to throw light on the reciprocal exchanges between legal philosophy and the theory of speech acts (as developed by Austin and Searle). The first part concerns the contributions to legal philosophy made by the theory of speech acts with a view to developing new perspectives.
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A Speech Act Theory of Metadiscourse

Written Communication, 1989
Metadiscourse commonly is defined as “discourse about discoursing.” In its brief history, the term has appeared in several studies of text structure; however, theorists disagree concerning the functions and forms of metadiscursive structures and the role of metadiscourse in a larger theory of text linguistics.
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Tongues-Speech and Speech Act Theory

Philosophia Christi
“Speaking in tongues” is a phenomenon that evokes various reactions among evangelicals. Although there has been a growing scholarly effort to address exegetical, theological, psychological, and historical issues related to speaking in tongues, very little has been done to address philosophical issues. In this article I analyze speaking in tongues using
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Speech acts and action theory

Journal of Pragmatics, 1984
Abstract There are two basic approaches to human action, the multiplier theory and the unifier theory. In this paper the author offers a revised version of The Multiplier Theory of A.I. Goldman and J. Kim and then applies it to illocutionary and perlocutionary acts. The author's goal is to show on a given occasion when a speaker performs an utterance
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Speech-Act Theory

2021
Daniel W. Harris, Rachel McKinney
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