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3 lip 2007 · 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.
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Speech acts are a fundamental concept in language psychology, focusing on how we use words to perform actions and convey meaning beyond literal interpretation. This theory bridges linguistics and pragmatics, emphasizing the functional aspects of communication in social contexts.
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 ...
27 lip 2024 · The speech act theory was developed within the field of language philosophy to study how people interact with each other through communication, and how messages perform a specific function in the process of communication.
3 sie 2021 · Speech act theory studies how people interact with other through communication and how messages perform a specific function in this process.
1 wrz 2021 · Marco Ruffino. Part of the book series: Synthese Library ( (SYLI,volume 443)) 195 Accesses. Abstract. In this chapter, I explain the basics of speech act theory in the version that best suits our purpose, i.e., in Searle and Vanderveken (Foundations of illocutionary logic. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1985) formulation.
Every speech act causes the speaker to become committed to the hearer to act on a propositional content. Hence, commitments are relations between speakers, hearers, and propositions. Their purpose is to enable speakers and hearers to coordinate their actions: communication is coordinated action for action coordination.
