Expressions, Speech Acts and Discourse
Expressions, Speech Acts and Discourse
Juliane House, Universität Hamburg and the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics
Daniel Z. Kadar, Dalian University of Foreign Languages, China and Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics
First published in 1981, Let's Talk and Talk About It is regarded as a cornerstone of research in pragmatics, which laid new and lasting foundations for the teaching of English. Forty years on, this extensively updated version is fully tailored for the 21st century. It provides a pedagogic interactional grammar of English, designed for learners and teachers of English and textbook writers, as well as experts of pragmatics and applied linguistics. The book includes a rigorous pragmatic system through which interaction in English and other languages can be captured in a replicable way, covering pragmatically important expressions, types of talk and other interactional phenomena, as well as a ground-breaking interactional typology of speech acts. The book is also illustrated with a legion of interactional and entertaining examples, showing how the framework can be put to use. It will remain a seminal work in the field for years to come.
- Provides a new, comprehensive, and interactional pedagogic grammar of English
- Includes a systematic overview of interaction in English, illustrated by many examples
- Offers a rigorous and replicable framework for pragmatic and applied linguistic analysis
Product details
June 2023Paperback
9781108949590
304 pages
229 × 154 × 17 mm
0.45kg
Not yet published - available from February 2025
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction, 2. Communicative Interaction in the Foreign Language Classroom, 3. Basis for the Description of Discourse as Interactive Process, 4. On Keeping Talking Without Saying Anything (Much): The Use of Gambits in Interaction, 5. Using Words to Make Meaning: Ritual Frame Indicating Expressions in Everyday Talk, 6. On Saying What You Mean: Illocutions in Different Interactional Slots, 7. Building Up Interactional Episodes, 8. Types of Talk in The Global Classroom, 9. The Interactional Practice of Grammatical Items, 10. Conclusion.
