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Speech acts (Linguistics)

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Speech acts in argumentative discussions

Frans H. van Eemeren

1984

Toward a speech act theory of literary discourse

Mary Louise Pratt

1977

Apologies and remedial interchanges

Marion Owen

1983

The narrative act

Susan Sniader Lanser

1981

Going nucular

Geoffrey Nunberg

2004

Implicature

Wayne A. Davis

1998

Spoken discourse

Willis Edmondson

1981

Framing in discourse

Deborah Tannen

1993

From Utterances to Speech Acts

Mikhail Kissine

2013

Everyday mother talk to toddlers

Schachter, Frances Fuchs

1979

(On) Searle on conversation

John R. Searle

1992

The Recovery of Doctrine in the Contemporary Church

Richard Heyduck

2002

Pragmaticism

Ellyn Lucas Arwood

1983

Everyday talk

Karen Tracy

2002

Sound patterns of spoken English

Linda Shockey

2003

Linguistic communication and speech acts

Kent Bach

1979

Conversation

Margaret L. McLaughlin

1984

Foundations of illocutionary logic

Daniel Vanderveken, John R. Searle

1985

Khrushchev's Shoe and Other Ways to Captivate an Audience of 1 to 1,000

Roy Underhill

2000

Politeness

Penelope Brown

1987 ★ 5.0

Khrushchev's shoe

Roy Underhill

2002

Communication Across Cultures

Heather Bowe, Kylie Martin

2007

The language of negotiation

Joan Mulholland

1991

Speech act theory and pragmatics

Ferenc Kiefer, Manfred Bierwisch

1980

Explorations in semantics and pragmatics

Geoffrey N. Leech

1980

Cognitive foundations of calculated speech

Sanders, Robert E.

1987

Birdsong, speech, and language

Martin Everaert, Johan J. Bolhuis

2013

How to do things with words

J. L. Austin

1962

Propositional structure and illocutionary force

Jerrold J. Katz

1977

Smooth Talkers

Koenrad Kuiper, Kuiper, Koenraad.

1996