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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 11:03:01
From: Nicolas Ruytenbeek [nruytenb at ulb.ac.be]
Subject: The mechanics of indirectness: A case study of directive speech acts

 
Institution: Université Libre de Bruxelles, Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique 
Program: Linguistics 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2017 

Author: Nicolas Ruytenbeek

Dissertation Title: The mechanics of indirectness: A case study of directive
speech acts 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Pragmatics
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Semantics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     French (fra)


Dissertation Director(s):
Mikhail Kissine

Dissertation Abstract:

This dissertation investigates the comprehension of indirect requests (IRs).
Focusing on English and French, it proposes that IRs such as Can you + verbal
phrase (for short, Can you VP?) achieve an optimal communicative efficiency
because, while they entail extra processing costs, they match the expected
level of politeness in many contexts. The approach taken combines Talmy’s
force dynamic semantics with a traditional perspective in philosophy of
language drawing on speech act theory.




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