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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.

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Book category Books in English Language linguistics Sociolinguistics

• Full title: Speech Acts and Conversational Interaction
• Author: Michael L. Geis
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264
• EAN: 9780521025294
• ISBN: 052102529X
• ID: 02018545
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 392 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 164 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. March 2006

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