Speech Acts and Clause Types

English in a Cross-Linguistic Context

AvPeter Siemund

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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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 investigate typologically prominent clause types and their forces, such as declaratives and assertions, interrogatives and questions, and imperatives and commands. These case studies begin with an overview of the necessary theoretical foundations, followed by a discussion of the grammatical structures of English, and an assessment of the relevant cross-linguistic facts. Each chapter ends with a succinct summary of the most important findings, practice exercises, and recommendations for further reading and research. Overall, the book works towards developing a gradient model of clause types that goes substantially beyond the traditional distinction between major and minor clause types. It draws on insights from linguistics, philosophy, and sociology, and may be used as a textbook for undergraduate or graduate courses in semantics, pragmatics, and morphosyntax.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-03-01
Mått:172 x 248 x 24 mm
Vikt:812 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics
Antal sidor:452
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198718147

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Peter Siemund has been Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Hamburg since 2001. He pursues a cross-linguistic typological approach in his work on reflexivity and self-intensifiers, pronominal gender, interrogative constructions, speech acts and clause types, argument structure, tense and aspect, varieties of English, and language contact. His many publications include, as author, Pronominal Gender in English: A Study of English Varieties from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective (Routledge, 2008) and Varieties of English: A Typological Approach (CUP 2013), and, as editor, Linguistic Universals and Language Variation (Mouton de Gruyter 2011) and Foreign Language Learning in Multilingual Classrooms (with Andreas Bonnet; John Benjamins 2017).

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thought-provoking and as such would inspire future research ... a valuable contribution to research on speech acts and clause types in English ... I am, therefore, happy to highly recommend the book to researchers of English and general linguistics, in particular to those interested in semantics, pragmatics and the interface between syntax, semantics and pragmatics.

Innehållsförteckning

1: Introduction 2: Illocutionary acts and illocutionary force 3: Clauses and clause types 4: Functional typology 5: Declaratives and assertions 6: Polar interrogatives and yes/no-questions 7: Constituent interrogatives and content questions 8: Imperatives and commands 9: Exclamatives and exclamations 10: Minor clause types 11: Performative verbs and social actions 12: Summary and outlook

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