Pragmatics of speech actions / edited by Marina Sbisà, Ken Turner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sbisà, Marina.

Turner, Ken, 1956-

Series:

Handbooks of Pragmatics [HOPS]

Handooks of pragmatics ; 2

Handbooks of Pragmatics [HOPS] ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatics.

Speech acts (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (748 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2013]

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Preface to the handbook series

Preface to this handbook

Table of contents

Introduction

Part I. General issues

1. Locution, illocution, perlocution / Sbisà, Marina

2. Speaker's meaning / Kemmerling, Andreas

3. Implicating / Bianchi, Claudia

4. Presupposing / Simons, Mandy

5. Speech act classifications / Kissine, Mikhail

6. Performative utterances / Doerge, Friedrich Christoph

7. Mitigation / Caffi, Claudia

8. Power in speech actions / Leezenberg, Michiel

9. Speech Act Theory and intelligent software agents / Kibble, Rodger

10. Speech Act Theory, ethnocentrism, and the multiplicity of meaning-making practices / Richland, Justin B.

Part II. Varieties of speech action

11. Reference and attention / Leonardi, Paolo

12. Assertions / Green, Mitchell S.

13. Questions / Borge, Steffen

14. Requests / Walker, Traci

15. Praising and blaming / King, Matt / Roojen, Mark van

16. Promising / Ambroise, Bruno

17. Apologies / Oishi, Etsuko

18. Compliments / Alfonzetti, Giovanna

19. Speech actions and registers in ritual contexts / Kuipers, Joel

20. Speech actions in legal contexts / Witczak-Plisiecka, Iwona

21. Silence / Kurzon, Dennis

22. The structuring of discourse / Fetzer, Anita

About the authors

Name index

Subject index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 22, 2013).

ISBN:

9783110214383

3110214385

OCLC:

858761998