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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:   need reference - cross-cultural pragmatics
Author:   Fay Wouk
Submitter Email:  click here to access email

Query:   I read an article a few years ago which compared naturally occurring data with role play, and possibly also with DCT data, focussing, as I remember, on the speech act of expression of gratitude. the findings were to the effect that naturally occurring instances took more turns and were more elaborate than the role plays. I've misplaced my reference, and would appreciate it if anyone can supply same.

thanks,
Fay
LL Issue: 14.3299
Date posted: 30-Nov-2003



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