Browsing by Subject "Speech acts (Linguistics)"

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    • Cross-cultural pragmatics : the semantics of human interaction 

      Wierzbicka, Anna (Mouton de Gruyter, 2003)
      The book discusses data from a wide range of languages, including English, Italian, Russian, Polish, Yiddish, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, and Walmatjari (an Australian Aboriginal language), and it shows that the meanings ...

    • Reference and computation : an essay in applied philosophy of language 

      Kronfeld, Amichai; Searle, John (Cambridge University Press, 1990)
      This book deals with a major problem in the study of language: the problem of reference. The ease with which we refer to things in conversation is deceptive. Upon closer scrutiny, it turns out that we hardly ever tell each ...

    • Speech acts across cultures : challenges to communication in a second language 

      Gass, Susan M.; Neu, Joyce (Mouton de Gruyter, 1995)
      This book investigates the notion of Speech Act from a cross-cultural perspective. The starting point for this book is the assumption that speech acts are realized from culture to culture in different ways and that these ...