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Author | : Andreas H. Jucker |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027254207 |
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Did earlier speakers of English use the same speech acts that we use today? Did they use them in the same way? How did they signal speech act values and how did they negotiate them in case of uncertainty? These are some of the questions that are addressed in this volume in innovative case studies that cover a wide range of speech acts from Old English to Present-day English. All the studies offer careful discussions of methodological and theoretical issues as well as detailed descriptions of specific speech acts. The first part of the volume is devoted to directives and commissives, i.e. speech acts such as requests, commands and promises. The second part is devoted to expressives and assertives and deals with speech acts such as greetings, compliments and apologies. The third part, finally, contains technical reports that deal primarily with the problem of extracting speech acts from historical corpora.
Author | : Lorena Pérez-Hernández |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2020-12-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1108476325 |
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This book merges theory and practical activities to show how research on speech acts can be implemented in EFL teaching.
Author | : Karin Aijmer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107015049 |
Download Corpus Pragmatics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The first handbook to survey and expand the burgeoning field of corpus pragmatics, the intersection of pragmatics and corpus linguistics.
Author | : John Searle |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9400989644 |
Download Speech Act Theory and Pragmatics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the study of language, as in any other systematic study, there is no neutral terminology. Every technical term is an expression of the assumptions and theoretical presuppositions of its users; and in this introduction, we want to clarify some of the issues that have surrounded the assumptions behind the use of the two terms "speech acts" and "pragmatics". The notion of a speech act is fairly well understood. The theory of speech acts starts with the assumption that the minimal unit of human communica tion is not a sentence or other expression, but rather the performance of certain kinds of acts, such as making statements, asking questions, giving orders, describing, explaining, apologizing, thanking, congratulating, etc. Characteristically, a speaker performs one or more of these acts by uttering a sentence or sentences; but the act itself is not to be confused with a sentence or other expression uttered in its performance. Such types of acts as those exemplified above are called, following Austin, illocutionary acts, and they are standardly contrasted in the literature with certain other types of acts such as perlocutionary acts and propositional acts. Perlocutionary acts have to do with those effects which our utterances have on hearers which go beyond the hearer's understanding of the utterance. Such acts as convincing, persuading, annoying, amusing, and frightening are all cases of perlocutionary acts.
Author | : John R. Searle |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1969-01-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521096263 |
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'This small but tightly packed volume is easily the most substantial discussion of speech acts since John Austin's How To Do Things With Words and one of the most important contributions to the philosophy of language in recent decades.'--Philosophical Quarterly
Author | : Susan Gass |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2009-09-24 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 311021928X |
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This book investigates the notion of Speech Act from a cross-cultural perspective. The starting point for this book is the assumption that speech acts are realized from culture to culture in different ways and that these differences may result in communication difficulties that range from the humorous to the serious. Importantly, a recurring theme in this volume has to do with the need to verify the form, the function and the constraining variables of speech acts as a prerequisite for dealing with them in the classroom. The book deals with three major areas of Speech Act research: 1) Methodological Issues, 2) Speech Acts in a second language, and 3) Applications. In the first section authors discuss general issues of methodology and present data in an effort to detail the efficacy of different methodologies. Research clearly shows the effect of methodology on the results. This section is followed by a discussion of specific speech acts, including speech acts and strategy use that have as their goal the creation and maintenace of solidarity (i.e. greetings, compliments, apologies) and speech acts that involve face-threatening acts (i.e.complaints, favor-asking, suggestions). In the final section, authors consider applications of speech act research within the context of advertising and business relationships.
Author | : Armin Burkhardt |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 437 |
Release | : 2010-09-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3110859483 |
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Speech Acts, Meaning and Intentions: Critical Approaches to the Philosophy of J.R. Searle (Foundations of Communication and Cognition).
Author | : Daniel Vanderveken |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1990-09-28 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521374156 |
Download Meaning and Speech Acts: Volume 1, Principles of Language Use Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Meaning and Speech Acts Daniel Vanderveken further develops the logic of speech acts and the logic of propositions to construct a general semantic theory of natural languages.
Author | : Brigitte Nerlich |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1996-06-28 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027298823 |
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The roots of pragmatics reach back to Antiquity, especially to rhetoric as one of the three liberal arts. However, until the end of the 18th century proto-pragmatic insights tended to be consigned to the pragmatic, that is rhetoric, wastepaper basket and thus excluded from serious philosophical consideration. It can be said that pragmatics was conceived between 1780 and 1830 in Britain, but also in Germany and in France in post-Lockian and post-Kantian philosophies of language. These early ‘conceptions’ of pragmatics are described in the first part of the book. The second part of the book looks at pragmatic insights made between 1830 and 1880, when they were once more relegated to the philosophical and linguistic underground. The main stage was then occupied by a fact-hunting historical comparative linguistics on the one hand and a newly spiritualised philosophy on the other. In the last part the period between 1880 and 1930 is presented, when pragmatic insights flourished and were sought after systematically. This was due in part to a new upsurge in empiricism, positivism and later behaviourism in philosophy, linguistics and psychology. Between 1780 and 1930 philosophers, psychologists, sociologists and linguists came to see that language could only be studied in the context of dialogue, in the context of human life and finally as being a kind of human action itself.
Author | : Bettelou Los |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2022-02-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027258198 |
Download English Historical Linguistics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume drawn from the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Edinburgh 2018) focuses on the role of language contact in the history of English. It showcases a wide variety of historical linguistic approaches, including ‘big data’ analyses of large corpora, dialectological methods, and the study of translated texts. It also breaks new ground by applying relevant insights from other fields, among them postcolonial linguistics and anthropology. This pluralistic approach brings new and under-studied issues within the scope of explanation, and challenges some long-held assumptions about the nature of historical change in English. The volume will be of interest to an audience interested in the history of English, and the impact of its contact with Viking Age Norse, Old French, and Latin.