Speech acts in mathematics
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-020-02702-3
Abstract: We offer a novel picture of mathematical language from the perspective of speech act theory. There are distinct speech acts within mathematics (not just assertions), and, as we intend to show, distinct illocutionary force indicators… read more here.
Keywords: speech acts; mathematics; speech act; act theory ... See more keywords
Criminalisation as a Speech-Act: Saying Through Criminalising
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DOI: 10.1007/s11572-024-09726-7
Abstract: The act of criminalising conduct has been understood by many theorists as a form of communication. This paper proposes a model, based on speech-act theory, for understanding how that act of communication works. In particular,… read more here.
Keywords: criminalisation speech; conduct; speech act; act ... See more keywords
Telepresence and Trust: a Speech-Act Theory of Mediated Communication
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DOI: 10.1007/s13347-016-0233-3
Abstract: Trust is central to our social lives in both epistemic and practical ways. Often, it is rational only given evidence for trustworthiness, and with that evidence is made available by communication. New technologies are changing… read more here.
Keywords: trust; speech act; act theory; communication ... See more keywords
Assertion: A (partly) social speech act
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DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2021.03.016
Abstract: Abstract In a series of articles (Pagin, 2004, 2009), Peter Pagin has argued that assertion is not a social speech act, introducing a method (which we baptize ‘the P-test’) designed to refute any account that… read more here.
Keywords: assertion; assertion partly; social speech; speech act ... See more keywords
Altered speech act indication: A problem for foreign language learners?
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DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2021.102554
Abstract: Abstract The aim of this study is to examine how Chinese learners of English evaluate ‘altered speech act indicating functions’ of conventionalised expressions normally associated with one specific speech act. In every language, there is… read more here.
Keywords: act indication; speech act; altered speech; speech ... See more keywords
Comparing holistic and analytic marking methods in assessing speech act production in L2 Chinese
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DOI: 10.1177/02655322221113917
Abstract: This study compared holistic and analytic marking methods for their effects on parameter estimation (of examinees, raters, and items) and rater cognition in assessing speech act production in L2 Chinese. Seventy American learners of Chinese… read more here.
Keywords: assessing speech; holistic analytic; act production; speech act ... See more keywords
Negation-Licensed Commands: The Imperative Operator Outside Canonical Imperative Clauses
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DOI: 10.1353/lan.0.a968892
Abstract: Most formal research on the imperative sentence type has focused on canonical imperatives, forms like Leave!, which are often characterized across languages by properties such as bare verbal morphology and omission of the subject. Noncanonical… read more here.
Keywords: operator; canonical imperatives; licensed commands; speech act ... See more keywords
Proper names as speech acts
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DOI: 10.1515/ip-2024-5003
Abstract: Abstract In this paper, I question the idea that proper names are merely used to refer to things or individuals. However, I am not going to use predicativism to prove this point. I will somehow… read more here.
Keywords: name; proper names; language; act ... See more keywords
Performative speech act verbs and sincerity in Anglo-Norman and Middle English letters
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DOI: 10.1515/multi-2019-0011
Abstract: Abstract This paper investigates performative manifestations of sincerity across Anglo-Norman and Middle English. In particular, it locates adverbial sincerity markers used to qualify performative speech act verbs in late medieval letters (fourteenth and fifteenth centuries),… read more here.
Keywords: sincerity; norman middle; performative speech; speech act ... See more keywords
Dilemmas of Corpus Construction beyond Folklore Collections: Threat as a Speech Act in Early Modern Witchcraft Trials
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DOI: 10.1556/022.2019.64.2.15
Abstract: During the corpus-building operation of the Digital Database of Hungarian Verbal Charms we tried to augment the available material by the inclusion of witness statements of witch trials conducted in early modern Bihar County and… read more here.
Keywords: speech act; corpus construction; dilemmas corpus; early modern ... See more keywords
Assertion and Its Many Norms
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DOI: 10.1590/0100-6045.2017.v40n4.jw
Abstract: Timothy Williamson offers the ordinary practice, the lottery and the Moorean argument for the ‘knowledge account’ that assertion is the only speech-act that is governed by the single rule that one must know its content.… read more here.
Keywords: assertion; assertion many; knowledge; speech act ... See more keywords