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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.
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.
Speech acts. Chris Potts, Ling 130a/230a: Introduction to semantics and pragmatics, Winter 2022. March 8. 1 Overview. 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.
In this position paper, we have made a claim for L2 pragmatic research to further integrate speech acts into interaction studies and discourse analysis, by proposing a radically minimal typology of speech acts through which we interpret speech acts interactionally.
Speech act theory emerged as a means of understanding and analysing the things we do when we use language. We track the development of speech act theory, focusing on the work of two influential thinkers in the field: Austin and Searle.
1. Speech acts. People use language to accomplish certain kinds of acts, broadly known as speech acts, and distinct from physical acts like drinking a glass of water, or mental acts like thinking about drinking a glass of water.
