Indirect Speech Acts

By Nicholas Asher, Alex Lascarides. Synthese, 2001

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Situation-bound utterances as pragmatic acts (2010, background): “Austin (1962) and Searle (1975) may not have been quite right when they assigned power mainly to words forgetting about the important role of actual situational context.”
Cues to deception. (2003, background): “However, others who have discussed immediacy and related constructs have included other cues (e.g., Brown & Levinson, 1987; Fleming, 1994; Fleming & Rudman, 1993; Holtgraves, 1986; Searle, 1975).”
“Wii Will Rock You!” The Use and Effect of Figurative Language in Consumer Reviews of Hedonic and Utilitarian Consumption (2013, background): “Literature on the formation and creation of conventions and norms in conversation (Lascarides and Asher 2001; Lewis 2002) suggests they are formed in a gradual process of repeated use and encounter.”
Book Review: Ontological Semantics, by Sergei Nirenburg and Victor Raskin (2004, background): “Before the study of meaning emerged as a separate linguistic discipline in the late 19th century, a number of disjoint ideas about meaning had accumulated over the millennia. For instance, Plato’s “Kratylos” is devoted essentially to a discussion about whether words are natural and necessary express”
Literal salience in on-line processing of idiomatic expressions by second language learners (2006, methodology): “These approaches are compatible with the traditional view of figurative language understanding, known as the ‘standard pragmatic model’ (Clark and Lucy, 1975; Grice, 1975; Searle, 1975; 1979; Janus and Bever, 1985), which treated non-literal language as deviant from ‘normal’ literal speech.”
Psychological Reactance and Persuasive Health Communication: A Review of the Literature (2019, background): “Freedom-threatening language is commonly defined in terms of message explicitness (Searle, 1995).”
Bilateral and Unilateral Requests: The Use of Imperatives and Mi X? Interrogatives in Italian (2012, background): “Much of the work on interrogative requests (Curl & Drew, 2008; Heinemann, 2006; Searle, 1975; Wootton, 2005) has focussed on “yes/no” questions constructed with modal verbs (e.”
Learning to Request in a Second Language (2003, methodology): “Following previous classifications of request strategies on a scale of indirectness (Blum-Kulka, 1982; Ervin-Tripp, 1976; House & Kasper, 1981; Searle, 1975), the CCSARP (Blum-Kulka et al.”
Tutor and Student Assessments of Academic Writing Tutorials: What Is "Success?". (2002, methodology): “This analysis recognized two types of directives, interaction-internal directives(IIDs) (West, 1990) and suggestions (D’Andrade & Wish, 1985; Searle, 1975).”