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This comprehensive work provides numerous essays by specialists in the field on speech act theory. Topics include: verbal mood and sentence mood in the tradition of universal grammar; utterance acts and speech acts; illocutionary morphology and speech acts; and speech acts and relevance theory.

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Author:   Daniel Vanderveken (Université du Quebec, Trois Rivières) ,  Susumu Kubo (University of Matsuyama) ,  Daniel Vanderkeven
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   77
Weight:   0.600kg
ISBN:  

9789027250933

ISBN 10:   9027250936
Pages:   345
Publication Date:   21 December 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Chapter 1. Introduction (by Vanderveken, Daniel); 2. Part I. General Theory; 3. Chapter 2. Universal Grammar and Speech Act Theory (by Vanderveken, Daniel); 4. Chapter 3. Verbal Mood and Sentence Moods in the Tradition of Universal Grammar (by Leclerc, Andre); 5. Chapter 4. How Performatives Work (by Searle, John R.); 6. Chapter 5. Possible Directions of Fit between Mind, Language and the World (by Sousa Melo, Candida J. de); 7. Part II. Discourse and Interlocution; 8. Chapter 6. Speech Acts and the logic of mutual understanding (by Trognon, Alain); 9. Chapter 7. Utterance acts and speech acts (by Davis, Steven); 10. Chapter 8. An Ascription-Based Theory of Illocutionary Acts (by Yamada, Tomoyuki); 11. Chapter 9. An approach for modelling and simulating conversations (by Moulin, Bernard); 12. Part III. Speech Acts in Linguistics; 13. Chapter 10. Illocutionary Morphology and Speech Acts (by Kubo, Susumu); 14. Chapter 11. Speech-Act Constructions, Illocutionary Forces, and Conventionality (by Yamanashi, Masa-aki); 15. Chapter 12. Speech act theory and the analysis of conversation (by Moeschler, Jacques); 16. Chapter 13. Speech Acts and Relevance Theory (by Dominicy, Marc); 17. Notes; 18. References; 19. Notes on Contributors; 20. Subject Index; 21. Name Index

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