Publications

Publication details [#48503]

Cooren, François. 2008. Between semiotics and pragmatics: Opening language studies to textual agency. Journal of Pragmatics 40 (1) : 1–16.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

agency | pragmatics | semiotics | speech act

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Drawing on Sbisà's work on speech act theory and on Descombes' tetravalent structures, this paper explores how pragmatics and semiotics intersect through textual agency.