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7 cze 2024 · Speech act theory is a subfield of pragmatics that studies how words are used not only to present information but also to carry out actions. The speech act theory was introduced by Oxford philosopher J.L. Austin in "How to Do Things With Words" and further developed by American philosopher John Searle.
3 lip 2007 · Whereas an act of speech is any act of uttering meaningful words, ‘speech act’ is a term of art. As a first approximation, speech acts are those acts that can (though need not) be performed by saying that one is doing so.
If we are to develop a linguistically satisfying account of speech acts and speech act types, we need to provide empirical evidence for the types of speech acts proposed and a theoretically interesting explanation of how they are differentiated and recognized by interlocutors.
1 sie 2024 · Employing a quantitative approach, the study utilizes CiteSpace, a powerful bibliometric tool, to discern and examine emerging patterns, novel trends, and the pivotal themes inherent to the realm of speech acts as portrayed in international journals.
Speech acts represent a key concept in the field of pragmatics which can be broadly defined as language use in context taking into account the speaker’s and the addressee’s verbal and non-verbal contributions to the negotiation of meaning in interaction.
Here we review the core issues—the identifying characteristics, the degree of universality, the problem of multiple functions, and the puzzle of speech act recognition. Special attention is drawn to the role of conversation structure, probabilistic linguistic cues, and plan or sequence inference in speech act recognition, and to the ...
4 lis 2023 · Discourse analysis, and specifically argumentative analysis as an essential part of it, are useful theoretical frameworks to understand how speakers motivates and justifies their ideas or actions in the world and how these are communicated to others for persuading them.
