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SPEECH ACTS & CONVERSATIONAL INTERACTION- MICHAEL

Author: Michael L. Geis
SKU: 9780521025294

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This book unites speech act theory and conversation analysis to advance a theory of conversational competence. It is predicated on the assumption that speech act theory, if it is to be of genuine empirical and theoretical significance, must be embedded within a general theory of conversational competence capable of accounting for how we do things with words in naturally occurring conversation, and it can usefully be seen as a synthesis of traditional speech act theory, conversation analysis, and artificial intelligence research in natural language processing. Michael L. Geis analyses a variety of naturally occurring conversations, presenting them within a framework of computational interest and within discourse representation theory. In particular, he offers an explicit mapping of semantic and pragmatic (i.e. speech-act-theoretic) meaning features and politeness features into so-called conventionalized indirect speech act forms.

 

Format: Paperback / softback 264 pages, Worked examples or Exercises

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Sociolinguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc

ISBN : 9780521025294

Published : 30 Mar 2006

Author : Michael L. Geis

Size : 234 x 164 x 16 (mm)

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