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Pragmatics of Speech Actions / ed. by Marina Sbisà, Ken Turner.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Handbooks of Pragmatics [HOPS] ; 2Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (733 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110214376
  • 9783110214383
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface to the handbook series -- Preface to this handbook -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Part 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 -- Part 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
Summary: 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 volume deals with main concepts, methodological issues and phenomena common to different kinds of speech action. The second part deals with specific kinds of speech actions, including types of illocutionary acts and some discourse and conversational phenomena. Reduced series price (print) available! › For orders, please contact degruyter@de.rhenus.com.
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Frontmatter -- Preface to the handbook series -- Preface to this handbook -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Part 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 -- Part 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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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 volume deals with main concepts, methodological issues and phenomena common to different kinds of speech action. The second part deals with specific kinds of speech actions, including types of illocutionary acts and some discourse and conversational phenomena. Reduced series price (print) available! › For orders, please contact degruyter@de.rhenus.com.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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