Speech Acts and Conversational Interaction
Speech Acts and Conversational Interaction
This book unites speech act theory and conversation analysis to advance a theory of conversational competence. It is predicated on the assumption that speech act theory, if it is to be of genuine empirical and theoretical significance, must be embedded within a general theory of conversational competence capable of accounting for how we do things with words in naturally occurring conversation, and it can usefully be seen as a synthesis of traditional speech act theory, conversation analysis, and artificial intelligence research in natural language processing. Michael L. Geis analyses a variety of naturally occurring conversations, presenting them within a framework of computational interest and within discourse representation theory. In particular, he offers an explicit mapping of semantic and pragmatic (i.e. speech-act-theoretic) meaning features and politeness features into so-called conventionalized indirect speech act forms.
- Proposes a new theory of speech acts
- Synthesises traditional speech act theory, conversation analysis, and artificial intelligence research
- Offers a foundation for a theory of conversational competence
Product details
March 2006Paperback
9780521025294
264 pages
229 × 152 × 15 mm
0.398kg
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Table of Contents
- 1. The nature of speech acts
- 2. Meaning and force
- 3. The structure of communicative interactions
- 4. Interactional effects
- 5. Indirect speech acts
- 6. Conventions of use
- 7. The structure of conversation
- 8. Utterance generation
- References
- Index.
