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From Utterances to Speech Acts

By Mikhail Kissine

"Kissine offers a new theory of speech acts which is philosophically sophisticated and builds on work in cognitive science, formal semantics, and linguistic typology. This highly readable, brilliant essay is a major contribution to the field."

--François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod



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Query Subject:   Nonverbal Communication
Author:   George Elgin, Suzette Haden Elgin
Submitter Email:  click here to access email

Linguistic LingField(s):  Discourse Analysis

Query:   Sat, 1 Nov 1997 14:59:03 -0500
George Elgin, Suzette Haden Elgin
ocls@ipa.net
Nonverbal Communication


I need specific references for two statistics that turn up everywhere
- including my own notes from grad school. One says that 65% of all
information in typical English speech is nonverbal; the other says 90%
of emotional information in English speech is nonverbal. I've found a
dozen references *to* these statistics, but none offering an original
source, although one cryptic note appears to credit Bolinger. Please
email me directly if you can help -- thanks.

Suzette Haden Elgin
ocls@ipa.net
LL Issue: 8.1573
Date posted: 02-Nov-1997



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