Speech Acts: Discursive, Multimodal, Diachronic (Elements in Pragmatics) - Hardcover

Andreas H. Jucker

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1009532960 ISBN 13: 9781009532969

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2024

Synopsis

This Element is an introduction to research methods in speech acts, including discursive, multimodal, and diachronic approaches.

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This Element outlines current issues in the study of speech acts. It starts with a brief outline of four waves of speech act theory, that is, the philosophical, the experimental, the corpus-based and the discursive approaches. It looks at some of the early experimental and corpus-based methods and discusses their more recent developments as a background to the most important trends in current speech act research. Discursive approaches shift the focus from single utterances to interaction and interactional sequences. Multimodal approaches show that the notion of 'speech act' needs to be extended in order to cover the multimodality of communicative acts. And diachronic approaches focus on the historicity of speech acts. The final section discusses some open issues and potential further developments of speech act research.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009532960
• ISBN 13: 9781009532969
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 75