Speech Acts and Conversational Interaction (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521025294)

This study proposes a new theory of speech acts, Dynamic Speech Act Theory. 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 synthesizes traditional speech act theory, conversation analysis, and artificial intelligence research in natural language processing.

Author: Michael L. Geis
ISBN-10: 052102529X
ISBN-13: 9780521025294
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/30/2006
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d