Overview
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Thomas T. Ballmer
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Sprachwissenschaftliches Institut, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum 1, Fed. Rep. of Germany
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Waltraud Brennenstuhl
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Sprachwissenschaftliches Institut, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum 1, Fed. Rep. of Germany
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Classification
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- Thomas T. Ballmer, Waltraud Brennenstuhl
Pages 3-5
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Pages 6-12
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Pages 13-14
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Pages 15-32
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Pages 33-38
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Pages 39-63
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Pages 64-67
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Lexicon Sections
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Directions for Using Lexicon Section I
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Pages 71-167
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Directions for Using Lexicon Section II
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Pages 169-274
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Back Matter
Pages 275-276
About this book
This book presents a new classification of speech acts. It is an alter native to all previously published classifications of speech acts. The classification proposed here is based on an extensive set of data, name lyon all the verbs designating linguistic activities and aspects thereof. A theoretically and methodologically justifiable method is used to proceed in a number of steps from these data to the classification. The classification is documented in a lexicon with two sections. The first section exhibits the classification in all its details. Each verb is listed to its meaning at the appropriate place in the classification. according The second, alphabetically ordered section enables one to locate the verbs classified in the first part. The speech act classification as presented in this book has a number of consequences for linguistic theorizing: the book makes advances in three linguistically relevant fields - speech act theory, lexicology, and theory of meaning. In speech act theory firstly of course a classifica tion is proposed which is theoretically justified and which is simul taneously based explicitly and systematically on linguistic data. Second ly, a wider concept of speech acts is introduced which proves its value by making possible a linguistically justified classification. Thirdly, the concept of speech act sequence (or more generally partial order) is brought into focus as a major organizational principle of the semantic relation between speech acts.