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The Structural Design of Language

By Thomas S. Stroik, Michael T. Putnam

In this book, Stroik and Putnam take on Turing's challenge. They argue that the narrow syntax – the lexicon, the Numeration, and the computational system – must reside, for reasons of conceptual necessity, within the performance systems.

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Query Subject:	Need Resources on Speech Act Theory
Author:	Jan Dowell
Submitter Email:	click here to access email

Linguistic LingField(s):	Discourse Analysis Linguistic Theories Semantics

Query:	Hi. I'm interested in how questions are standardly classified by speech act theorists. I'm guessing Searle would classify them as directives, but that doesn't seem a good classification for a question asked by someone wondering aloud. I'm sure there is good literature on this...could you help me find papers that might represent some recent or classic thought on this topic? thanks, Jan Dowell
LL Issue:	23.1244
Date posted:	12-Mar-2012
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