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Jul 3, 2007 · Since that time “speech act theory” has become influential not only within philosophy, but also in linguistics, psychology, legal theory, artificial intelligence, literary theory, and feminist thought among other scholarly disciplines.
May 1, 2013 · Abstract. The essential insight of speech act theory was that when we use language, we perform actions—in a more modern parlance, core language use in interaction is a form of joint action. Over the last thirty years, speech acts have been relatively neglected in linguistic pragmatics, although important work has been done especially in ...
A speech act is sincere only if the speaker is in the psychological state that her speech act expresses. vii. Degree of strength of the sincerity conditions: Two speech acts might be the same along other dimensions, but express psychological states that differ from one another in the dimension of strength.
Abstract. This introduction is both a capsule history of major work in speech-act theory and an opinionated guide to its current state, organized around five major accounts of what speech acts fundamentally are. We first consider the two classical views, on which a speech act is the kind of act it is mainly due to convention (Austin), or to ...
Abstract. This article aims to connect Austin's seminal notion of a speech act with developments in philosophy of language over the last forty odd years. It starts by considering how speech acts might be conceived in Austin's general theory. Then it turns to the illocutionary acts with which much philosophical writing on speech acts has been ...
Jan 1, 2015 · Publish with us. Policies and ethics. This chapter introduces the concept of “language as dialogue” which rests on the insight that language use is always dialogically oriented. A distinction has to be made between initiative and reactive speech acts, which are functionally different speech...
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Overview. speech act. Quick Reference. (pragmatics) Goal-directed actions performed with words in interpersonal communication, defined primarily with reference to the speaker's intentions and the effects on the listener (s). The term was introduced by Austin and is also associated with Searle in an analytical approach called speech act theory.
