This book demonstrates the presence of literature within speech act theory and the utility of speech act theory in reading literary works. Though the founding t
This book, first published in 1990, combines an introduction to speech-act theory as developed by J. L. Austin with a survey of critical essays that have adapte
In the study of language, as in any other systematic study, there is no neutral terminology. Every technical term is an expression of the assumptions and theore
Speech-act theory is the interdisciplinary study of the wide range of things we do with words. Originally stemming from the influential work of twentieth-centur
Any study of communication must take into account the nature and role of speech acts in a broad context. This book addresses questions such as: - What do we mea