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Publication details [#8426]

Sbisà, Marina. 1984. Directivity and sequencing. In D'Urso, Valentina and Paolo Leonardi, eds. Discourse analysis and natural rhetorics. Cleup editore. pp. 143–151.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

directive | speech act sequence

Person as a subject

Austin, J.L. | Searle, J.R.

Annotation

What are the relations between the class of directive illocutionary acts in Searle (1976: 'A classification of illocutionary acts') and the group of exercitives in Austin (1962: 'How to do things with words'); and what are the criteria for distinguishing a directive in the analysis of discourse or conversation?