The speech acts of Irish utterance, situation, and meaning Brian Nolan

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nolan, Brian, 1952- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Speech acts (Linguistics).

Irish language--Grammar.

Irish language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

University of Toronto Press 2024

Toronto Buffalo London University of Toronto Press 2024

Summary:

"This book provides an account of the speech acts of modern Irish (assertive, directive, commissive, expressive, declarative, and indirect speech acts), and their various significant clausal / sentential constructions. The study is strongly descriptive in the first instance while delivering an analysis of these diverse speech acts of Irish in a way that is intended to strike a balance between depiction, explanation, and technical characterisation. The choice of topics, the characterisation of speech and illocutionary acts, covered in this study is guided primarily by speech act theory. It relates the speech acts of Irish to each other, and looks to define each, in terms of their relationship to the situation of the utterance reflecting real-time language-in-use, with context and common ground, to identify their important properties. This book is intended for a broad and diverse scholarly audience. Primarily, it is intended to be of value to linguists interested in the pragmatics of Irish. Linguists studying the interaction of syntax, semantics and pragmatics are likely to find many of the descriptions and analyses of the speech act language phenomena interesting and useful."-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

1 The speech acts of Irish

2 The role of situation, context, and common ground in speech acts

3 Understanding speech acts

4 The assertive speech act

5 The evidential utterance as a type of assertive speech act

6 The directive speech acts

7 The question as a type of directive speech act

8 The commissive speech act

9 The expressive speech act

10 The declarative speech act

11 Indirect speech acts

12 Concluding comments on the speech acts of Irish

References

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G.

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

V

W

Z.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Other Format:

Print version Nolan, Brian, 1952- Speech acts of Irish

ISBN:

9781487566364

1487566360

1487566352

9781487566357

OCLC:

1458554424

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license