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Author : Nicolas Ruytenbeek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108483179
Explores the fascinating phenomenon of indirect speech acts, highlighting the situations they are used in, and how they are understood.
Author : John R. Searle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521313937
A direct successor to Searle's Speech Acts (C.U.P. 1969), Expression and Meaning refines earlier analyses and extends speech-act theory to new areas including indirect and figurative discourse, metaphor and fiction.
Author : Peter Cole,Jerry L. Morgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Discourse analysis
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007513778
Author : Sebastian P.
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783668316652
Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, Technical University of Braunschweig, course: Approaches to Meaning, language: English, abstract: This term paper will deal with speech act theory, especially with the success of speech acts depending on certain conditions. Due to the usage of direct and indirect speech acts in everyday conversations it will be analysed which conditions have to be fulfilled to have a successful speech act. The following theories will be used to answer the research question whether the same conditions have to be fulfilled for direct and indirect speech acts to be successful: 1) Theory of Felicity Conditions by John Searle 2) Cooperative Principle by Paul Herbert Grice 3) Inference Theory by Gordon and Lakoff The hypothesis is that indirect speech acts are different than direct speech acts due to the demanded hearer uptake and the possible ambiguity. After giving definitions of important linguistic terms and theories, the success of utterances and conversations in general will be described by the help of the Cooperative Principle by Grice. Then different examples of Direct and Indirect Speech Acts will be analysed that will show the difference between the two forms. Some of the used examples are made up and some are dialogues taken from the TV-series “The Big Bang Theory” as well as “The Walking Dead”. To explain how one can interpret the implicature in an utterance, the inference theory by Gordon and Lakoff will be taken into account. In the end it is made clear that the success of Indirect Speech Acts depends on the context in which the utterance is made and also on other external conditions which the speaker cannot control himself as the speaker often requests a hearer uptake. Different texts by Austin, Thomas, Levinson, Renkema, Cruse and Yule will be studied to get an answer to the research question. Special focus will be put on the Indirect Speech Acts as they can be ambiguous and ask for a hearer uptake to be successful.
Author : John Searle,F. Kiefer,M. Bierwisch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789400989641
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 : S.L. Tsohatzidis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134866984
Foundations of Speech Act Theory investigates the importance of speech act theory to the problem of meaning in linguistics and philosophy. The papers in this volume, written by respected philosophers and linguists, significantly advance standards of debate in this area. Beginning with a detailed introduction to the individual contributors, this collection demonstrates the relevance of speech acts to semantic theory. It includes essays unified by the assumption that current pragmatic theories are not well equipped to analyse speech acts satisfactorily, and concludes with five studies which assess the relevance of speech act theory to the understanding of philosophical problems outside the area of philosophy of language.
Author : Lorena Pérez-Hernández
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108476324
This book merges theory and practical activities to show how research on speech acts can be implemented in EFL teaching.
Author : Peter Cole,Jerry L. Morgan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004368811
Both linguists and philosophers have, for a number of years, been interested in the concept of speech acts, first proposed by J. L. Austin; but each discipline has remained uniformed on the often parallel work of the other. This volume brings together linguistic and philosophical approaches to speech acts, in order to bring out agreements and disagreements. Many of the articles focus on the problem of indirect speech acts, or "conversational implicature".Such indirect speech acts are a major impediment to a coherent, explanatory account of the relation between sound and meaning, since it is not clear whether the use of a sentence to perform and indirect speech act is part of the sentence's linguistically significant meaning, to be handled by syntactic rules, or whether this use is best explained on some other basis, such as a theory of language use. In this volume, such philosophers as John Searle and H. P. Grice examine the relation between the content of a sentence and the conditions under which it can be used to perform a given speech act, while such linguists as John Robert Ross, Georgia M. Green, and Jerrold M. Sadock show that the illocutionary intent of a speaker is often reflected in the syntactic properties of the sentence he uses. This book, with its full airing of the controversy regarding the status of conversational implicature and syntactic rules, will be invaluable to both linguists and philosophers concerned with semantics and pragmatics.
Author : John P. Kimball
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Generative grammar
ISBN : UCSC:32106012934391
Author : Frangois Recanati
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521303532
Author : Mikhail Kissine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107328341
Most of the time our utterances are automatically interpreted as speech acts: as assertions, conjectures and testimonies; as orders, requests and pleas; as threats, offers and promises. Surprisingly, the cognitive correlates of this essential component of human communication have received little attention. This book fills the gap by providing a model of the psychological processes involved in interpreting and understanding speech acts. The theory is framed in naturalistic terms and is supported by data on language development and on autism spectrum disorders. Mikhail Kissine does not presuppose any specific background and addresses a crucial pragmatic phenomenon from an interdisciplinary perspective. This is a valuable resource for academic researchers and graduate and undergraduate students in pragmatics, semantics, cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics and philosophy of language.
Author : Daniel Vanderveken,Susumu Kubo
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027250944
Any study of communication must take into account the nature and role of speech acts in a broad context. This book addresses questions such as: - What do we mean? - How do we say it? and - How is it understood? in the broad context of universal, socio-cultural and psychological issues that bear on human communication. It presents an overview of current issues in speech act theory that are at the center of human and social sciences dealing with language, thought and action, building on John Searle's famous article 'How Performatives Work' (included in this book). The contributions by linguists, psychologists, computer scientists, and philosophers thus address issues of communication that are crucial in conversation analysis, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, psychology and philosophy, and a general understanding of how we communicate. The book is suitable for courses with an extensive bibliography for further reading and an Index.
Author : David A. Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315401768
First published in 1985, this book aims to develop an approach to speech acts that has the virtue of being straight-forward, explicit, formal and flexible enough to accommodate many of the more general problems of interactive verbal communication. The first chapter introduces situation semantics with the second addressing the assumptions implied by the problem of representing speaker intentionality. The third chapter presents a streamlined theory of speech acts and the fourth tests the predictions of the theory in several hypothetical discourse situations. A summary and suggestions for further research is provided in chapter five, and appendices facilitate reference to key concepts.
Author : Andreas H. Jucker,Irma Taavitsainen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027254206
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 : Johan van der Auwera
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UOM:39015013417558
Word and affix-lists, as well as grammatical observations, collected from texts written during 1694-1785.