17.3346, Books: Discourse Analysis: Geis

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Date: 07-Nov-2006
From: Joyce Reid < jreid at cup.org >
Subject: Speech Acts and Conversational Interaction: Geis 

	
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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:54:45
From: Joyce Reid < jreid at cup.org >
Subject: Speech Acts and Conversational Interaction: Geis 
 



Title: Speech Acts and Conversational Interaction 
Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org
	
Author: Michael L Geis

Paperback: ISBN: 052102529X Pages: 262 Price: U.S. $ 37.99
Paperback: ISBN: 052102529X Pages: 262 Price: U.K. £ 21.99


Abstract:

This book unites speech act theory and conversation analysis to advance a
theory of conversational competence. 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 can usefully be seen as a
synthesis of traditional speech act theory, conversation analysis, and
artificial intelligence research in natural language processing. Michael L.
Geis analyses a variety of naturally occurring conversations, presenting
them within a framework of computational interest and within discourse
representation theory. In particular, he offers an explicit mapping of
semantic and pragmatic (i.e. speech-act-theoretic) meaning features and
politeness features into so-called conventionalized indirect speech act forms. 



1. The nature of speech acts; 
2. Meaning and force; 
3. The structure of communicative interactions; 
4. Interactional effects; 
5. Indirect speech acts; 
6. Conventions of use; 
7. The structure of conversation; 
8. Utterance generation; 
References; 
Index. 


Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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