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Download or read book Directives and Indirectness written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Indirect Directives (or when to Say “please”) written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most intriguing problems in pragmatics and Speech Act theory is indirect speech acts like Can you pass the salt? which are questions that function primarily as requests referred to here as whimperatives. The primary interpretation of a whimperative can be considered its conventionalized form. This work examines the whimperative structure by looking at each syntactic unit, establishing clear criteria for what constitutes conventionalization. This description of conventionalization is then used to investigate the accuracy of the please-insertion test. This test has been used as a primary marker of conventionalized requests. However, this work argues that please is merely a strong illocutionary marker of requests and that please works with many non-conventionalized utterances. A survey was administered to 79 English speakers who judged various whimperative utterances by the context in which they may occur. In whimperatives that are not conventionalized due to the use of a stative verb, please presents an intra-sentential conflict that the hearer must resolve. The results showed that these non-conventionalized forms are most often treated as requests when please is admitted to the sentence. Since the sentences in question are all interrogative in form, the inescapable conclusion is that even by definition, formally interrogative sentences that have not been conventionalized as requests can function as indirect requests, with the addition of please. The key contribution of this thesis is to clearly identify a set of formal features that make them able to function as indirect requests, including specific moods of modality, direct or indirect specification of an addressee, and the appropriate type of verb.
Author : Rodie Risselada
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004408975
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Imperatives and Other Directive Expressions in Latin written by Rodie Risselada and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the recent hausse in pragmatic studies shows, linguistic attention is increasingly focussing on aspects of language use. Making use of recent insights developed within speech act theory, discourse analysis, and sociolinguistics, this book deals with the various expressions that were used in Latin to per-form so-called directive speech acts, i.e. orders, requests, advice, proposals, sug-gestions, etc. On the basis of a large corpus of comedy, correspondence, and instruction texts the expressions concerned (imperatives, subjunctives, future indicatives, as well as modal expressions and vari-ous other lexical expressions of directivity) are investigated against the background of the verbal interactions in which they typically occur. As regards its contribution to Latin linguistics, the present study adds a number of re-finements to our knowledge of this well-documented lan-guage, for instance with respect to the reference of the subjects of the so-called impera-tive II ending in -to, the conventionalized speech act functions of interrogative quid and quin directives, and the diachronic process of conventionalization of velim requests.
Author : Nicolas Ruytenbeek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108483178
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Indirect Speech Acts written by Nicolas Ruytenbeek and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the fascinating phenomenon of indirect speech acts, highlighting the situations they are used in, and how they are understood.
Author : Satomi Takahashi
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (187 download)
Download or read book A Contrastive Study of Indirectness Exemplified in L1 Directive Speech Acts Performed by Americans and Japanese written by Satomi Takahashi and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Guilford Publications
ISBN 13 : 1462511619
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (625 download)
Download or read book written by and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mikhail Kissine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107328349
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)
Download or read book From Utterances to Speech Acts written by Mikhail Kissine and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : François Cooren
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027250790
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book The Organizing Property of Communication written by François Cooren and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is an organization? What are the building blocks that ultimately constitute this social form, so pervasive in our daily life? Like Augustine facing the problem of time, we all know what an organization is, but we seem unable to explain it. This book brings an original answer by mobilizing concepts traditionally reserved to linguistics, analytical philosophy, and semiotics. Based on Algirdas Julien Greimas' semio-narrative model of action and Jacques Derrida's concept of écriture, a reconceptualization of speech act theory is proposed in which communication is treated as an act of delegation where human and nonhuman agents are mobilized (texts, machines, employees, architectural elements, managers, etc.). Perfectly congruent with the last development of the sociology of translation developed by Michel Callon and Bruno Latour, this perspective illustrates the organizing property of communication through a process called 'interactoriality'. Jacques Lacan used to say that the unconscious is structured like a language. This book shows that a social organization is structured like a narrative.
Author : Małgorzata Chałupnik
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031547225
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Leadership and Collaboration in Workplace Discourse written by Małgorzata Chałupnik and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jim W. Adams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0567695581
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)
Download or read book The Performative Dimensions of Rhetorical Questions in the Hebrew Bible written by Jim W. Adams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out to describe the multi-dimensional nature and function of rhetorical questions in the Old Testament. Biblical scholars have previously analyzed the use of rhetorical questions in both Testaments, but consistently describe their function in persuasive terms. While this understanding is appropriate in a number of instances, many rhetorical questions do not operate this way, and Jim W. Adams focuses in particular on rhetoric expressing the self-involvement of both the speaker and hearer. Among linguistic philosophers, speech act theory has illuminated the fact that uttering a sentence does not merely convey information; it may also involve the performing of an action. The concept of communicative action provides additional tools to the exegetical process as it points the interpreter beyond the assumption that the use of language is merely for descriptive purposes. Language can also have performative and self-involving dimensions. In relation to speech act theory, linguistic specialists continue to research the nature of rhetorical questions.
Author : Thomas M. Holtgraves
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135672652
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Language As Social Action written by Thomas M. Holtgraves and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Topics covered include speech act theory and indirect speech acts, politeness and the interpersonal determinants of language, language and impression management and person perception, conversational structure, perspective taking, and language and social thought."--Jacket
Author : Peter Cole
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004368817
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Speech Acts written by Peter Cole and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jesús Romero-Trillo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319179489
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)
Download or read book Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2015 written by Jesús Romero-Trillo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume, Current Approaches to Discourse and Translation Studies, presents innovative theoretical models and applications of the two disciplines in intercultural contexts. The Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics offers a platform to scholars who carry out rigorous and interdisciplinary research on language in real use. Corpus linguistics and Pragmatics have traditionally represented two paths of scientific research, parallel but often mutually exclusive and excluding. Corpus Linguistics can offer a meticulous methodology based on mathematics and statistics while Pragmatics strives to interpret intended meaning in real language. This series will give readers insight into how pragmatics can be used to explain real corpus data, and how corpora can illustrate pragmatic intuitions.
Author : Geoffrey N. Leech
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195341384
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Pragmatics of Politeness written by Geoffrey N. Leech and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers an account of a wide range of politeness phenomena in English, illustrated by hundreds of examples of actual language use taken largely from authentic British and American sources. Building on his earlier pioneering work on politeness, Geoffrey Leech takes a pragmatic approach that is based on the controversial notion that politeness is communicative altruism. Leech's 1983 book, Principles of Pragmatics, introduced the now widely-accepted distinction between pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic aspects of politeness; this book returns to the pragmalinguistic side, somewhat neglected in recent work. Drawing on neo-Gricean thinking, Leech rejects the prevalent view that it is impossible to apply the terms 'polite' or 'impolite' to linguistic phenomena. Leech covers all major speech acts that are either positively or negatively associated with politeness, such as requests, apologies, compliments, offers, criticisms, good wishes, condolences, congratulations, agreement, and disagreement. Additional chapters deal with impoliteness and the related phenomena of irony ("mock politeness") and banter ("mock impoliteness"), and with the role of politeness in the learning of English as a second language. A final chapter takes a fascinating look at more than a thousand years of history of politeness in the English language.
Author : Rosina Márquez Reiter
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027298939
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Linguistic Politeness in Britain and Uruguay written by Rosina Márquez Reiter and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2000-12-08 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first well-researched contrastive pragmatic analysis of requests and apologies in British English and Uruguayan Spanish. It takes the form of a cross-cultural corpus-based analysis using male and female native speakers of each language and systematically alternating the same social variables in both cultures. The data are elicited from a non-prescriptive open role-play yielding requests and apologies. The analysis of the speech acts is based on an adaptation of the categorical scheme developed by Blum-Kulka et al. (1989). The results show that speakers of English and Spanish differ in their choice of (in)directness levels, head-act modifications, and the politeness types of males and females in both cultures. Reference to an extensive bibliography and the thorough discussion of methodological issues concerning speech act studies deserve the attention of students of pragmatics as well as readers interested in cultural matters.
Author : Maria Sifianou
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780198241324
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (413 download)
Download or read book Politeness Phenomena in England and Greece written by Maria Sifianou and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1999 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politeness is crucial to successful communication and is consequently of interest to those who study language in its social context. This work presents an application of Brown and Levinson's theoretical work in a full-length comparative case study.
Author : Dale April Koike
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292768990
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Language and Social Relationship in Brazilian Portuguese written by Dale April Koike and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Give me the salt" and "Please pass the salt" make the same request, but in a polite situation the first utterance may give offense, while the second may not. How and why such differences in wording and intonation, in a particular context, produce different effects is the concern of pragmatics, the area of linguistics that deals with how speech is used in interaction. In this innovative study of pragmatics in Brazilian Portuguese, Dale Koike analyzes the politeness phenomenon, specifically in the context of speech acts known as "directives." As acts intended to get someone to do something, directives bring into play a variety of sociocultural factors, depending on the relationship between the participants. Using empirical data obtained through natural language observation and from questionnaires of over one hundred adult native speakers, Koike identifies factors—such as age, education, and gender—that influence the strategies of politeness a given speaker is likely to use in making a directive. This research clarifies the unwritten language rules and assumptions that native speakers intuitively follow in phrasing their directive utterances. Koike also includes important material on the acquisition of strategies for politeness by children and adult second-language learners, as well as on gender differences in politeness forms. Her research proposes important additions to the theory of speech acts as conceived by Austin and Searle, particularly in the application of deictic organization to account for a hierarchy of pragmatic forms. Language and Social Relationship in Brazilian Portuguese will be of interest to a wide audience in diverse fields, including linguistics, anthropology, interaction analysis, communications, semantics, sociology, psychology, and education.
