Pragmatics of Speech Actions /

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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. The first part of the volum...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Sbisà, Marina (Editor), Turner, Ken, 1956- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2013.
©2013
Series:Handbooks of pragmatics ; v. 2.
Subjects:
Pragmatics.
Speech acts (Linguistics)
Pragmatique.
Actes de parole.
pragmatics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Pragmatics
Pragmatiek.
Historische linguïstiek.
Handboeken (vorm)
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface to the handbook series; Preface to this handbook; 1. Introduction; I. General issues; 1. Locution, illocution, perlocution; 2. Speaker's meaning; 3. Implicating; 4. Presupposing; 5. Speech act classifications; 6. Performative utterances; 7. Mitigation; 8. Power in speech actions; 9. Speech Act Theory and intelligent software agents; 10. Speech Act Theory, ethnocentrism, and the multiplicity of meaning-making practices; II. Varieties of speech action; 11. Reference and attention; 12. Assertions; 13. Questions; 14. Requests; 15. Praising and blaming; 16. Promising; 17. Apologies.
  • 18. Compliments; 19. Speech actions and registers in ritual contexts; 20. Speech actions in legal contexts; 21. Silence; 22. The structuring of discourse; About the authors; Name index; Subject index.

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