On Speech Act Verbs
This essay concerns the analysis of speech act verbs. It offers a range of ideas which form theoretical preliminaries to the analysis of this phenomenon.
[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:4] 1980. viii, 83 pp.
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Table of Contents
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Introduction | p. 1
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1. What are Speech Act Verbs? | p. 3
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1.0 Introduction
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1.1 Speech act verbs and their grammatical behavior
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1.2 The performativity continuum
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1.3 Summary
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2. Why bother about Speech Act Verbs? | p. 19
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2.1 Introduction
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2.1 Some reasons to study speech acts
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2.2 Some faits divers
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2.3 Some reasons to study speech act verbs
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2.4 Summary
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3. How to Analyze Speech Act Verbs | p. 43
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3.0 Introduction
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3.1 The unifying feature of speech act verbs
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3.2 Some evidence
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3.3 The magical formula
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3.4 Some stuffing for the formula
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3.5 Summary
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4. How to Account for the Non-Typical Cases | p. 63
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4.0 Introduction
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4.1 The problem illustrated
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4.2 A possible solution
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4.3 Summary
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5. Conclusion | p. 73
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Footnotes | p. 75
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General