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Publication details [#1049]
Ballmer, Thomas T. and Waltraud Brennenstuhl. 1981. Speech act classification: A study in the lexical analysis of English speech activity verbs. Springer. x + 274 pp. 
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
A classification of English speech act verbs (in an extremely wide sense of 'speech act') into 8 model groups, 24 models and typifications and 600 categories. A theoretical justification is followed by a 'thesaurus' and an alphabetical index of the 4800 verbs dealt with.