Speech act taxonomy as a tool for ethnographic description : an analysis based on videotapes of continuous behavior in two New York households / Nira Reiss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reiss, Nira.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; 6:7.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0166-6258 ; 6:7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Speech acts (Linguistics)--Case studies.

Speech acts (Linguistics).

Sociolinguistics--New York (State)--New York--Case studies.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (163 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1985.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study is intended to design measures for ethnographic description including speech acts in an etic instrumental approach, oriented toward an analysis of the functions of communicative events in relation to the ongoing stream of behavior. A revised taxonomy of speech acts is applied to an empirical corpus and is shown to produce a systematic set of behavioral measures which are potentially productive for cross-cultural comparison.

Contents:

SPEECH ACT TAXONOMY AS A TOOL FOR ETHNOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION: An Analysis Based on Videotapes of Continuous Behavior in two New York Households; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; LIST OF TABLES; Acknowledgements; 1. INTRODUCTION; 1.1. The background of the research; 1.2. An etic approach to speech acts; 1.3. Goals and strategy of the study; 2. THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF SPEAKING AND THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF DOING; 2.1. What emic definitions of speech acts can't do; 2.2. The limits of emically defined speech events and situations; 2.3. Speech acts and communicative intentions

2.4. The taxonomy of speech acts3. CLASSIFYING SPEECH ACTS; 3.1. Intended effects; 3.2. Communicative intentions before speech; 3.3. Comprehending speech acts in context; 3.4. Language devices expressing illocutionary acts; 4. THE STRUCTURE OF SPEECH ACTS; 4.1. Address; 4.2. Motivators; 4.3. The analysis of modality and modulation; 4.4. Procedures; 5. BEHAVIORAL COUNTS OF SPEECH ACTS; 5.1. Defining measures based on the taxonomy of speech acts; 5.2 Coding Directive and Commissive measures; 5.3. The other speech act measures; 5.4. Conclusions; FOOTNOTES; REFERENCES; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-35913-8

9786613359131

90-272-7957-8

OCLC:

609892227