Speech Acts: Discursive, Multimodal, Diachronic

by Andreas H. Jucker

This Element outlines current issues in the study of speech acts. It starts with a brief outline of four waves of speech act theory, that is, the philosophical, the experimental, the corpus-based and the discursive approaches. It looks at some of the early experimental and corpus-based methods and discusses their more recent developments as a background to the most important trends in current speech act research. Discursive approaches shift the focus...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009421492
• ISBN13: 9781009421492
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"