Peter Siemund

Speech Acts and Clause Types

English in a Cross-Linguistic Context

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is an introduction to the relationship between the morphosyntactic properties of sentences and their associated illocutionary forces or force potentials. It draws on insights from linguistics, philosophy, and sociology, and may be used as a textbook for undergraduate or graduate courses in semantics, pragmatics, and morphosyntax.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780198718147
• ISBN-10: 0198718144
• Artikelnr.: 49086548

Autorenporträt

Peter Siemund has been Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Hamburg since 2001. He pursues a cross-linguistic typological approach in his work on reflexivity and self-intensifiers, pronominal gender, interrogative constructions, speech acts and clause types, argument structure, tense and aspect, varieties of English, and language contact. His many publications include, as author, Pronominal Gender in English: A Study of English Varieties from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective (Routledge, 2008) and Varieties of English: A Typological Approach (CUP 2013), and, as editor, Linguistic Universals and Language Variation (Mouton de Gruyter 2011) and Foreign Language Learning in Multilingual Classrooms (with Andreas Bonnet; John Benjamins 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Illocutionary acts and illocutionary force
3: Clauses and clause types
4: Functional typology
5: Declaratives and assertions
6: Polar interrogatives and yes/no-questions
7: Constituent interrogatives and content questions
8: Imperatives and commands
9: Exclamatives and exclamations
10: Minor clause types
11: Performative verbs and social actions
12: Summary and outlook