Speech Acts and Clause Types: English in a Cross-Linguistic Context

by Peter Siemund

Book Overview

This book is an introduction to the relationship between the morphosyntactic properties of sentences and their associated illocutionary forces or force potentials. The volume begins with several chapters dedicated to important theoretical and methodological issues, such as sentence and utterance meaning, illocutionary force, clause types, and cross-linguistic comparison. The bulk of the book is then composed of chapter-length case studies that systematically...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198718144
• ISBN13: 9780198718147
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 452 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.7" x 9.6"