ISBN:
9781108625463
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (286 pages)
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DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
A cutting-edge work, this book analyses the grammar of interactional language with a focus on discourse markers and their typology.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Conversation Boards -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Prologue -- 1 Interactional Language -- 1.1 Introducing Interactional Language -- 1.2 Toward a Grammar of Interactional Language -- 1.3 The Significance of Interactional Language -- 2 The Syntacticization of Speech Acts -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Classic Speech Act Theory -- 2.2.1 Situating Speech Act Theory -- 2.2.2 What Are Speech Acts? -- 2.3 The Linguistic Properties of Speech Acts -- 2.4 Syntacticizing Speech Acts Part I: The View from Generative Semantics -- 2.4.1 How to Encode Meaning in Syntax -- 2.4.2 Syntactic Underpinnings of the Performative Hypothesis -- 2.5 The Fate of the Performative Hypothesis -- 2.5.1 Arguments against Austin's Performative Hypothesis -- 2.5.2 Arguments against the Empirical Evidence -- 2.5.3 Arguments against the Syntacticization of Pragmatics -- 2.6 Syntacticizing Speech Acts Part II: Functional Architecture -- 2.6.1 Theoretical Background -- 2.6.2 A Dedicated Speech Act Structure -- 2.6.3 New Theories, New Problems -- 2.7 Conclusion -- 3 From Speech Acts to Interaction -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Philosophical Underpinnings -- 3.2.1 Assumptions about Conversations -- 3.2.2 Different Ways of Doing Things with Language -- 3.3 Dialogue-Based Frameworks -- 3.3.1 Conversation Analysis -- 3.3.2 Grounding Theory -- 3.4 Functional Grammar-Based Frameworks -- 3.4.1 Systemic Functional Linguistics -- 3.4.2 Functional Discourse Grammar -- 3.4.3 Longacre's Grammar of Discourse -- 3.4.4 Interactional Linguistics -- 3.5 Formal Grammar-Based Frameworks: The Semantic Angle -- 3.5.1 Formal Semantics of the Truth-Conditional Kind -- 3.5.2 Common Ground and Dynamic Semantics -- 3.5.3 The Question under Discussion and Being Inquisitive.
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