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15 gru 2018 · The speech act theory is one of the rigorous attempts to systematically explain the workings of language. It is not only widely influential in the philosophy of language, but in the areas...
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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.
Speech Act Theory is the level of analysis that goes beyond naming entities or judging linguistic structures. By focusing on the nonliteral meaning that arises in language in use, Speech Act Theory fosters a third level of analysis to language in use.
Speech Acts. Jerrold Sadock. When we speak we can do all sorts of things, from aspirating a consonant, to constructing a relative clause, to insulting a guest, to starting a war. These are all, pre-theoretically, speech acts—acts done in the process of speaking.
Over the last thirty years, speech acts have been relatively neglected in linguistic pragmatics, although important work has been done especially in conversation analysis. 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.
This handout is about doing things with words: the stable conventions surrounding how we signal to others that we intend to perform specific speech acts, the nature of those speech acts, and the effects those speech acts can have. It’s a highly uncertain, context-dependent process that has important social and legal consequences. 2 Locutionary act.
20 gru 2018 · The conception of language as a means of action has become a topic of sustained investigation by philosophers of language and linguists within the theory of speech acts.
