Illocutionary force and degrees of strength in language use

By M. Sbisà. 2001

156 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/d5c50a07c778962004e2f27ee0e286ad3e8860ea

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In Artificial Intelligence

1. Jean–Marc Dewaele

In Language and Linguistics

1. Jean–Marc Dewaele
2. Chengchen Li
3. P. Macintyre
4. Livia Dewaele
5. Xian Zhang
6. Chunmei Pan
7. Lawrence Jun Zhang
8. Kazuya Saito

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. Jean–Marc Dewaele
2. Chengchen Li
3. P. Macintyre
4. Xian Zhang
5. Chunmei Pan
6. Lawrence Jun Zhang
7. Livia Dewaele
8. Y. Teimouri

Citations in the corpus

• The Emotional Force of Swearwords and Taboo Words in the Speech of Multilinguals (2004, background): “…or fifth language is weaker than that of L1 speakers, and that, as a consequence, their swearing in the L2 may have unwanted illocutionary effects (Sbisa, 2001): Maureen (English L1, Italian L2): I prefer to express anger in my L2 Italian because I do not hear the weight of my words so everything…”
• Client commitment language during motivational interviewing predicts drug use outcomes. (2003, background): “Verbal commitments can vary in strength (Amrhein, 1992; Furberg, 1971; Sbisa, 2001; Searle, 1977).”