Chapter published in:
In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language: A corpus-driven approachEdited by Shlomo Izre'el, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi and Tommaso Raso
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 94] 2020
► pp. 181–219
The pragmatic analysis of speech and its illocutionary classification according to the Language into Act Theory
Emanuela Cresti | University of Florence – LABLITA
According to the Language into Act Theory, reference units in
speech have a pragmatic nature: they correspond to the activation of sensory-motor schemas
leading to the performance of different speech acts. Our background is the affective and
psychic motivations of the Human Birth Theory (Fagioli, 1971), compatible
with recent theories of Embodied Cognition. Identification and
classification of speech acts rest on corpus-based research. Speech activity is encoded by
prosody, that conveys utterance boundaries, illocutionary force and
information structure. The utterance nucleus is the
Comment, responsible for illocutionary force. We illustrate the
methodology for the induction of illocutions from corpora and detail pragmatic and prosodic
features which allow classifying illocutionary types. A case study is presented for four
original illocutions (self-conclusion, assertion taken for granted, ascertainment,
evidentiality assertion).
Keywords: speech activity, illocutions, spoken corpora, prosody, information structure
Published online: 18 June 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.94.06cre
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.94.06cre
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