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Pragmatics of Speech Actions /

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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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Sbisà, Marina (Éditeur intellectuel), Turner, Ken, 1956- (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2013.
©2013
Collection:Handbooks of pragmatics ; v. 2.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.