Pragmatics of Speech Actions

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Pragmatics of Speech Actions is written by Marina Sbisà and published by Walter de Gruyter. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3110214385 (ISBN 10) and 9783110214383 (ISBN 13).

This volume provides extensive critical information about current discussions in the study of speech actions. Its central reference point is classic speech act theory, but attention is also paid to nonstandard developments and other approaches that study speech as action. The first part of the volume deals with main concepts, methodological issues and phenomena common to different kinds of speech action. The second part deals with specific kinds of speech actions, including types of illocutionary acts and some discourse and conversational phenomena. Reduced series price (print) available! degruyter@de.rhenus.com.