Linguistic action
Subtitle: some empirical-conceptual studies
By: edited by Jef Verschueren.
Contributors: Verschueren, Jef.; Verschueren, Jef.
Series: Advances in discourse processes ;; v. 23
Publisher: Ablex Pub. Corp.
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Norwood, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
Subjects: Speech acts (Linguistics); Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb.; Lexicology.; Pragmatics.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 141-147.
"Basically intended as a companion to: What people say they do with words [c1985]"--Pref.
Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction, the empirical-conceptual approach / Jef Verschueren; title: The lexicalization of linguistic action and its relation to literacy / Maurizio Gnerre; title: Derivational relationships and lexical analysis : an examination of Quechua speech act verbs / Joan Manes; title: Speech act verbs, linguistic action verbs, and delocutivity / Jean-Claude Anscrombre, Fraņcoise Létoublon, and Alain Pierrot; title: Reported speech in Navajo myth narratives / James Collins; title: Performative verbs in modern Greek and their syntactical complements / Theodossia Pavlidou; title: Dealing with linguistic action verbs in depth / Louis Goossens; title: Some basic linguistic action verbs of Egyptian Arabic and Israeli Hebrew / Robert Sturm; title: Metapragmatics and universals of linguistic action / Jef Verschueren.