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The essential insight of speech act theory was that when we use language, we perform actions—in a more modern parlance, core language use in interaction is a form of joint action. Over the last thirty years, speech acts have been relatively neglected in linguistic pragmatics, although important work has been done especially in conversation ...
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Linguistic-pragmatic theories define these functions as speech acts, and various pragmatic traits characterise them at the levels of propositional content, action sequence structure, related commitments and social aspects.
14 cze 2024 · This entry will offer an overview of speech act theory by introducing and analyzing utterances of constatives and performatives, layers of speech acts (i.e., locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary), felicity conditions, typology of speech acts, and indirect speech acts.
The essays collected in this volume examine the categories of speech act theory and apply and develop them in the context of natural discourse and conversation, with the purpose of providing an accurate analysis of how speech can be action.
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.
31 lip 2013 · This volume provides extensive critical information about current discussions in the study of speech actions. Its central reference point is classic speech act theory, but attention is also paid to nonstandard developments and other approaches that study speech as action.
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.
