Context and Contexts: Parts meet whole?
Edited by Anita Fetzer and Etsuko Oishi
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 209] 2011. vii, 239 pp.
Etsuko Oishi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Etsuko Oishi plays a role.
Title
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Articles
2021 Chapter 2. How do we adapt ourselves in performing an illocutionary act? The Pragmatics of Adaptability, Silva, Daniel N. and Jacob L. Mey (eds.), pp. 37–54 | Chapter
The present chapter examines the idea that language users adapt to linguistic/societal conventions to communicate with each other by describing the mechanism in which they perform an illocutionary act and engage in a communicative exchange. Austin’s ([1962]1975) felicity conditions are… read more
2020 Discourse markers as indicators of connectedness between expositive illocutionary acts Pragmatics and Society 11:1, pp. 1–23 | Article
There has been consistent interest in discourse makers over the past couple of decades, and various proposals have been put forth regarding their functions. The present paper analyzes discourse markers in general as indicators of types of connectedness between expositive illocutionary acts… read more
2015 Follow-ups as speech acts in mediated political discourse The Dynamics of Political Discourse: Forms and functions of follow-ups, Fetzer, Anita, Elda Weizman and Lawrence N. Berlin (eds.), pp. 33–58 | Article
The importance of the concept of follow-ups in political discourse lies in the fact that it captures a dynamic process of political discourse that is not confined to a specific spatio-temporal location. Follow-ups are a part of three-move sequences, preceded by initiating moves and responses, which… read more
2014 Discursive functions of evidentials and epistemic modals Certainty-uncertainty – and the Attitudinal Space in Between, Cantarini, Sibilla, Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss (eds.), pp. 239–262 | Article
The present paper analyzes evidentials and epistemic modals in terms of their contribution to the illocutionary act. In indicating how the speaker acquires knowledge about a thing, event, or situation in the world (by evidentials), or what epistemic attitude s/he has towards a thought (by epistemic… read more
2011 Introduction Context and Contexts: Parts meet whole?, Fetzer, Anita and Etsuko Oishi (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Article
2011 How are speech acts situated in context? Context and Contexts: Parts meet whole?, Fetzer, Anita and Etsuko Oishi (eds.), pp. 181–204 | Article
This contribution purports to develop an Austinian speech act theory, in which the illocutionary act is described as the communicative move to the hearer that the speaker evaluates her present utterance as. In saying a performative or non-performative utterance, the speaker specifies or indicates… read more
2007 Appropriateness and felicity conditions: A theoretical issue Context and Appropriateness: Micro meets macro, Fetzer, Anita (ed.), pp. 55–77 | Article
The present paper gives a speech-act-theoretic explanation of the concept of appropriateness. In the speech act theory proposed in the present paper, the mechanism of performing an illocutionary act is explained as the process whereby a linguistic form, which represents a linguistic convention,… read more
2003 Semantic meaning and four types of speech act Perspectives on Dialogue in the New Millennium, Kühnlein, Peter, Hannes Rieser and Henk Zeevat (eds.), pp. 135–147 | Article