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1	How to Do Things with Words: Second Edition more books like this by J L Austin, Marina Sbisa (Editor), J O Urmsson (Editor) add to wishlist John L. Austin" was one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century. The William James Lectures presented Austin's conclusions in the field to which he directed his main efforts on a wide variety of philosophical problems. These talks became the classic "How to Do Things with Words." For this second edition, the editors have returned to ... see all copies from £9.90! new only from £13.29!
2	Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language more books like this by John R Searle add to wishlist Written in an outstandingly clear and lively style, it provokes its readers to rethink issues they may have regarded as long since settled. see all copies from £13.37! new only from £20.04! \| first editions
3	Framing in Discourse more books like this by Deborah Tannen, Ph.D. (Editor) add to wishlist The concept of framing has been pivotal in research on social interaction among anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, and linguists. This collection shows how the discourse analysis of frames can be applied to a range of social contexts. Tannen provides a seminal theoretical framework for conceptualizing the relationship between frames and ... see all copies from £7.27! new only from £11.72!
4	How to do things with words more books like this by J. L. Austin add to wishlist This work sets out Austin's conclusions in the field to which he directed his main efforts for at least the last ten years of his life. Starting from an exhaustive examination of his already well-known distinction between performative utterances and statements, Austin here finally abandons that distinction, replacing it with a more general theory ... see all copies from £16.41! new only from £23.66! \| first editions
5	Cross-Cultural Pragmatics more books like this by Anna Wierzbicka add to wishlist The book discusses data from a wide range of languages and it shows that the meanings expressed in human interaction and the different "cultural scripts" prevailing in different speech communities can be clearly and intelligibly described and compared by using a "natural semantic metalanguage", based on empirically established universal human ... see all copies from £35.70! new only from £35.70!
6	Discourse and Language Education more books like this by Evelyn Hatch add to wishlist Discourse and Language Education is part of the Cambridge Language Teaching Library series. Language educators often talk about "communicative competence" - the ability of learners to use language appropriately in different social settings. Discourse analysis describes how such communication is structured, so that it is socially appropriate and ... see all copies from £8.37! new only from £21.24! \| first editions
7	Speech Acts in Literature more books like this by J Hillis Miller add to wishlist This book demonstrates the presence of literature within speech act theory and the utility of speech act theory in reading literary works. Though the founding text of speech act theory, J.L. Austin's "How to Do Things with Words", repeatedly expels literature from the domain of felicitous speech acts, literature is an indispensable presence within ... see all copies from £11.14! new only from £14.38!
8	Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts more books like this by John R Searle add to wishlist John Searle's Speech Acts made a highly original contribution to work in the philosophy of language. Expression and Meaning is a direct successor, concerned to develop and refine the account presented in Searle's earlier work, and to extend its application to other modes of discourse such as metaphor, fiction, reference, and indirect speech arts. ... see all copies from £13.52! new only from £22.90! \| first editions
9	Words and Thoughts: Subsentences, Ellipsis, and the Philosophy of Language more books like this by Robert Stainton add to wishlist It is a near truism of philosophy of language that sentences are prior to words. Sentences, it is said, are what we believe, assert, and argue for; uses of them constitute our evidence in semantics; only they stand in inferential relations, and are true or false. Sentences are, indeed, the only things that fundamentally have meaning. Does this ... see all copies from £10.53! new only from £17.84! \| first editions
10	Vision and the Emergence of Meaning: Blind and Sighted Children's Early Language more books like this by Anne Dunlea add to wishlist The relationship between language and other aspects of conceptual development is one of the central issues in child language acquisition. One view holds that language is a special capacity, separate from other areas of cognition and learning. Another maintains that language is part of a larger, more general cognitive system, and is crucially ... see all copies from £14.46! new only from £25.01! \| first editions
11 view cover	The Music of Everyday Speech: Prosody & Discourse Analysis more books like this by Ann K Wennerstrom add to wishlist There is a growing interest among discourse analysts in incorporating the crucial element of prosody into the analysis of spoken language. These studies have tended to focus on specific aspects of prosody rather than presenting an over-all framework within which future analysis might continue. This volume establishes such a framework, and will ... see all copies from £10.50! new only from £22.90!
12 view cover	Speaking Naturally Student's Book: Communication Skills in American English more books like this by Bruce Tillitt (Editor), Mary Newton Bruder (Photographer) add to wishlist Communication skills in American English. Self-study. The Student's Book focuses on a language function-such as requesting information, thanking, complimenting, and inviting-while readings explain the cultural "rules" students need to know to communicate naturally and effectively. Structured exercises, as well as freer role plays, often involve ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £14.49!
13 view cover	The Logic of Conventional Implicatures more books like this by Christopher Potts add to wishlist This book revives the study of conventional implicatures in natural language semantics. H. Paul Grice first defined the concept. Since then his definition has seen much use and many redefinitions, but it has never enjoyed a stable place in linguistic theory. Christopher Potts returns to the original and uses it as a key into two presently under ... see all copies from £29.74! new only from £29.74!
14 view cover	Conversational Competence and Social Development more books like this by Ioanna Dimitracopoulou add to wishlist This book provides insight into the development of the child's ability to become a competent participant in conversation. It follows efforts to apply the insights of pragmatic philosophers of language to the psychology of language development, and holds that the meaning of a communication is embedded in social life. Language use and social ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £7.09! \| first editions
15 view cover	Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage more books like this by Penelope Brown add to wishlist This study is about the principles for constructing polite speeches. The core of it first appeared in Questions and Politeness, edited by Esther N. Goody (now out of print). It is here reissued with a fresh introduction that surveys the considerable literature in linguistics, psychology and the social sciences that the original extended essay ... see all copies from £26.00! new only from £27.68!
16 view cover	Implicature: Intention, Convention, and Principle in the Failure of Gricean Theory more books like this by Wayne A Davis add to wishlist H. P. Grice virtually discovered the phenomenon of implicature (to denote the implications of an utterance that are not strictly implied by its content). Gricean theory claims that conversational implicatures can be explained and predicted using general psycho-social principles. This theory has established itself as one of the orthodoxes in the ... see all copies from £23.02! new only from £23.02! \| first editions
17 view cover	Godspeech: Putting Divine Disclosures Into Human Words more books like this by Ben Campbell Johnson add to wishlist Johnson offers guidance for the difficult task of putting into human words the divine speech that believers discern from their ordinary daily experiences. He cites encounters related by Andrae Crouch, John Wesley, Parker Palmer, and Frederick Buechner. (Practical Life) see all copies from £6.73! new only from £6.91!
18 view cover	Speech Acts and Conversational Interaction more books like this by Michael L Geis add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from £16.68! new only from £28.02!
19 view cover	Sound Patterns of Spoken English more books like this by Linda Shockey add to wishlist Sound Patterns of Spoken English is a concise, to-the-point compendium of information about the casual pronunciation of everyday English as compared to formal citation forms. The book examines changes that occur to certain sounds and in certain parts of words and syllables in the casual, unmonitored speech of native English speakers. It outlines ... see all copies from £13.88! new only from £14.67!
20 view cover	Language as Social Action PR more books like this by Thomas M Holtgraves add to wishlist This interdisciplinary synthesis of the social psychological aspects of language use provides an integrative review of language as social action. The book weaves together research from philosophy, linguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropology, social and cognitive psychology, pragmatics, and artificial intelligence. In this way, it demonstrates how ... see all copies from £8.24! new only from £26.56!
21 view cover	Words and Deeds: Problems in the Theory of Speech Acts more books like this by David Holdcroft add to wishlist see all copies from £7.97! new only from £53.17! \| first editions
22 view cover	Interpretive Acts more books like this by Wendell V Harris add to wishlist Over the last twenty years, the humanities and social sciences have been preoccupied with the powers and limitations of language. During these years literary theory has become peculiarly fascinated with what language cannot do, with the impossibility of language meaning what the individual intends it to mean, if indeed individuals can intend or ... see all copies from £6.96! new only from £71.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	What Writers Know: The Language, Process, and Structure of Written Discourse more books like this by Martin Nystrand (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from £9.10! new only from £88.21! \| first editions
24 view cover	Discourse and Behavior more books like this by Jack Bilmes, Jack Blimes add to wishlist see all copies from £5.57! new only from £50.13! \| first editions
25 view cover	Social Accountability in Communication more books like this by Professor Richard Buttny add to wishlist This book is the winner of the Outstanding Scholarship Award from the Language & Social Interaction Division of the National Communication Association 2007! Much of our talk revolves around accounting for our own and other people's actions. We praise one person and blame another, justify our own actions, speculate on motives, tell and retell ... see all copies from £22.21! new only from £25.00!

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