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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807209103321

Autore

Kissine Mikhail

Titolo

From utterances to speech acts / / Mikhail Kissine [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-23458-1

1-107-32668-0

1-107-33240-0

1-107-33644-9

1-107-33312-1

1-107-33478-0

1-299-39987-8

1-107-33561-2

0-511-84219-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 196 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

401/.452

Soggetti

Speech acts (Linguistics)

Oral communication

Discourse analysis

Pragmatics

Semantics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1 Austin's distinctions revisited -- 2 Intentional states and locutionary acts -- 3 Constative speech acts -- 4 Directive speech acts -- 5 Speech acts, autism spectrum disorders and typical development -- 6 Commissive speech acts -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Most of the time our utterances are automatically interpreted as speech acts: as assertions, conjectures and testimonies; as orders, requests and pleas; as threats, offers and promises. Surprisingly, the cognitive correlates of this essential component of human communication have received little attention. This book fills the gap by providing a model of the psychological processes involved in interpreting and understanding



speech acts. The theory is framed in naturalistic terms and is supported by data on language development and on autism spectrum disorders. Mikhail Kissine does not presuppose any specific background and addresses a crucial pragmatic phenomenon from an interdisciplinary perspective. This is a valuable resource for academic researchers and graduate and undergraduate students in pragmatics, semantics, cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics and philosophy of language.