Speech Acts and Conversational Interaction
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780521025294
Subjects: Semantics (meaning); Sociolinguistics; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language; Communication; Linguistics; Semiotics & Theory; Language Arts & Disciplines / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines-Communication; Literary Criticism-Semiotics & Theory; Communicative competence; Conversation analysis; Speech acts (Linguistics)
First sentence: In this study, I propose and defend a new theory of speech acts predicated on the assumption that speech act theory, if it is to be of genuine empirical and theoretical interest, must be embedded in a theory of conversational competence that is grounded in naturally occurring and experimentally derived conversational data.