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Publication details [#12577]
Cohen, Andrew D. 1996. Investigating the production of speech acts. In Gass, Susan M. and Joyce Neu, eds. Speech Acts Across Cultures. Challenges to Communication in a Second Language. (Studies on Language Acquisition 11). De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 21–43.
Annotation
In this paper, the author considers both theoretical and applied aspects of speech act research. Three areas to be adressed are the description of the sociocultural and sociolinguistic abilities needed to produce a given speech act; the determination of the research methodology; the identification of interlanguage features in the data.