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Publication details [#10286]

Wunderlich, Dieter. 1980. Methodological remarks on speech act theory. In Searle, John R., Ferenc Kiefer and Manfred Bierwisch, eds. Speech act theory and pragmatics. Reidel. pp. 291–312.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

delimitation of pragmatics | speech act theory | telephone conversation

Annotation

W. summarizes some of the principles and topics of speech act theory, discusses the distinction between semantics and pragmatics, and illustrates some problems of speech act theory by inspecting a brief telephone conversation.