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A speech act is an expression that not only presents information but also performs an action, such as requesting, promising, or apologizing. Learn about the history of speech act theory, the distinction between locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts, and the applications of speech acts in various fields.
7 cze 2024 · Speech act theory is a pragmatic subfield that studies how words perform actions. Learn about its origins, categories, applications, and challenges from philosophers and linguists.
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...
3 lip 2007 · Speech Acts. First published Tue Jul 3, 2007; substantive revision Thu Sep 24, 2020. We are attuned in everyday conversation not primarily to the sentences we utter to one another, but to the speech acts that those utterances are used to perform: requests, warnings, invitations, promises, apologies, predictions, and the like.
Speech act theory explains linguistic meaning in terms of the rules governing their use in performing various speech acts. Learn about the theory's origins, main concepts, and applications from Britannica's editors.
A review of the core issues and challenges of speech act theory, such as the identifying characteristics, the degree of universality, the problem of multiple functions, and the puzzle of speech act recognition. The chapter also explores the role of conversation structure, prosody, plan recognition, and recursion in speech act performance.
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.
