Speech Act Theory and Negation
A Contrastive View on Illocutionary Negations in Spoken and Written Discourse
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Seminar paper from the year 2023 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,7, University of Augsburg, course: Pragmatics: Disagreements and Rejections, language: English, abstract: The aim of this work is split in three parts. The first aim is to give an overview of speech act theory and how the grammatical phenomenon of negation is situated in Austin's and Searle's speech act theory. Secondly, Tottie's study on negation in spoken and written discourse will be extended by some findings on the frequency of illocutionary negations in spoken discourse and maga...
Seminar paper from the year 2023 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,7, University of Augsburg, course: Pragmatics: Disagreements and Rejections, language: English, abstract: The aim of this work is split in three parts. The first aim is to give an overview of speech act theory and how the grammatical phenomenon of negation is situated in Austin's and Searle's speech act theory. Secondly, Tottie's study on negation in spoken and written discourse will be extended by some findings on the frequency of illocutionary negations in spoken discourse and magazines. Finally, a functional analysis of propositional negation and illocutionary negation is carried out based on examples.
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