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Using language
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ISBN: 0585061475 9780585061474 1438408587 Year: 1984 Publisher: Albany State University of New York Press

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Indirektheit von Sprechhandlungen: : eine linguistische Untersuchung
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ISSN: 03446778 ISBN: 3484103825 3111381773 9783484103825 Year: 1980 Volume: 26 Publisher: Tübingen: Niemeyer,

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Indirektheit von Sprechhandlungen. Eine linguistische Untersuchung

How to do things with words: the William James Lectures delivered at Harvard University in 1955
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ISBN: 9780191680861 0191680869 019824553X Year: 1975 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press

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This work sets out Austin's conclusions in the field to which he directed his main efforts for at least the last ten years of his life. Starting from an exhaustive examination of his already well-known distinction between performative utterances and statements, Austin here finally abandons that distinction, replacing it with a more general theory of 'illocutionary forces' of utterances which has important bearings on a wide variety of philosophical problems.


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Speech act theory and communication
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ISBN: 1283193078 1443831263 9786613193070 9781443828857 1443828858 9781443831260 9781283193078 6613193070 Year: 2011 Publisher: Newcastle Cambridge Scholars

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Speech Act Theory: A Univen Study was undertaken to investigate the pragmatic value of utterances of selected students in university of Venda. Utterances of second -language users of a language reflect the wealth of their language experiences and hence ca


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Grammatical variation across space and time
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ISBN: 1282104950 9786612104954 9027290377 9789027290373 9789027234834 9027234833 Year: 2009 Publisher: Amsterdam Philadelphia John Benjamins Pub. Co.

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Interrogative clauses in French show abundant variation, especially with regard to the position of the subject vis-à-vis the finite verb, the placement of the wh-word, and the use of question markers such as est-ce que and ti/tu. This book presents a comprehensive study of the evolution and use of French interrogative constructions across a time span of approximately five hundred years by drawing on written sources (15th to 17th century) and oral data (19th and 20th century). Special attention is paid to the regional variation between European French and Quebec French. A variationist analysis reveals the relevant sociolinguistic factors conditioning variant choice. On the basis of the results obtained, the syntax of the different variants is modeled within the framework of generative grammar. In particular, the progressive diachronic decline and restriction of subject-verb inversion is argued to mirror the loss of verb movement. This book is of interest to anyone concerned with syntactic variation and change.


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Potential questions at the semantics-pragmatics interface
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ISBN: 9004217932 9789004217935 9789004204782 9004204784 Year: 2016 Publisher: Leiden Boston

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In Potential Questions at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface Edgar Onea proposes a novel component for question under discussion based discourse pragmatic theories thereby combining such theories with new ideas from inquisitive semantics. He shows how potential questions account for an entire range of grammatical phenomena. These phenomena include the semantics of indefinite determiners, the meaning contribution of nominal appositives, specificational constructions and non restrictive relative clauses. This book delivers a comprehensive and empirically rich investigation into the role of questions in natural language interpretation. Drawing on data from German, English, Hungarian and Russian, Edgar Onea's study significantly broadens our understanding of conventional sensitivity to questions through formally rigorous analyses of specificational particles, parentheticals and indefinites. The Potential Questions framework offers a new and exciting perspective on utterance meanings as not just addressing, but also raising questions, with important consequences for integrated analyses of discourse structure and discourse relations. This book is essential reading for anybody interested in the semantics-pragmatics interface. Judith Tonhauser, The Ohio State University


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Speech act performance : theoretical, empirical and methodological issues
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ISSN: 15699471 ISBN: 9789027219893 9027219893 9789027219909 9027219907 9789027288363 9027288364 1282558587 9786612558580 9781282558588 661255858X Year: 2010 Volume: 26 Publisher: Amsterdam: John Benjamins,

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Suggestions are acts in which the speaker asks the hearer to perform an action that will potentially benefit the hearer (Rintell, 1979). Despite this fact, they have been regarded as face-threatening acts, since the speaker is in some way intruding into the hearer's world by performing an act that concerns what the latter should do (Brown & Levinson, 1987). For this reason, formulating pragmatically appropriate suggestions that do not result in impolite or rude behaviour may be especially difficult for second language learners whose contact with the target language is very limited. With that aim in mind, and based on previous studies on this speech act, this chapter proposes a pedagogical approach that ranges from awareness-raising to production activities.

A discourse production model for 'twenty questions'
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ISBN: 9027225052 9786613359841 1283359847 9027281114 9789027225054 9789027281111 Year: 1980 Volume: 2 Publisher: Amsterdam: Benjamins,

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This essay is an attempt to build up a plausible model of the cognitive processes behind the behavior exhibited by speaker-hearers in a specific discourse situation.

Conversation: how talk is organised
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ISBN: 0803922639 Year: 1984 Publisher: Beverly Hills Sage

Essays in speech act theory
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ISSN: 0922842X ISBN: 1282162489 9027298157 9786612162480 9027250936 9027250944 1556198353 1556198361 9789027298157 9781556198359 9781556198366 9789027250933 9789027250940 9781282162488 6612162481 Year: 2001 Volume: 77 Publisher: Amsterdam : Benjamins,

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Any study of communication must take into account the nature and role of speech acts in a broad context. This book addresses questions such as:- What do we mean?- How do we say it? and- How is it understood?in the broad context of universal, socio-cultural and psychological issues that bear on human communication. It presents an overview of current issues in speech act theory that are at the center of human and social sciences dealing with language, thought and action, building on John Searle's famous article 'How Performatives Work' (included in this book). The contributions by linguists, psychologists, computer scientists, and philosophers thus address issues of communication that are crucial in conversation analysis, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, psychology and philosophy, and a general understanding of how we communicate.The book is suitable for courses with an extensive bibliography for further reading and an Index.

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