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The Difference between Direct and Indirect Speech Acts. When Are Speech Acts Successful?

Name: The Difference between Direct and Indirect Speech Acts. When Are Speech Acts Successful?
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Author: Sebastian P.
ISBN: 978-3-668-31666-9

Term Paper, 2016

17 Pages, Grade: 1,0

Sebastian P. (Author)

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1. Introduction

2. Definitions
2.1 Speech Act Theory
2.1.1 Locution
2.1.2 Illocution
2.1.3 Perlocution
2.2 Speech Acts
2.2.1 Direct Speech Act
2.2.2 Indirect Speech Act

3. Felicity Conditions

4. Cooperative Principle and Conversational Implicature
4.1 Conventional Implicature
4.2 Conversational Implicature

5. Inference Theory

6. Ambiguity of Indirect Speech Acts & Hearer Uptake
6.1 Ambiguity
6.2 Hearer Uptake

7 Analysis of Examples
7.1 Direct Speech Acts
7.1.1 “The Walking Dead”
7.1.2 Other examples
7.2 indirect speech acts
7.2.1 “The Walking Dead”
7.2.2 “The Big Bang Theory”

8 Conclusion

9 References

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Title: The Difference between Direct and Indirect Speech Acts. When Are Speech Acts Successful?
College: Technical University of Braunschweig
Course: Approaches to Meaning
Grade: 1,0
Author: Sebastian P. (Author)
Year: 2016
Pages: 17
Catalog Number: V341843
ISBN (eBook): 9783668316652
ISBN (Book): 9783668316669
File size: 433 KB
Language: English
Keywords: Speech acts, direct speech acts, indirect speech acts, speech act theory, success of speech acts, felicity conditions, cooperative principle, inference theory, the walking dead, the big bang theory, ambiguity, hearer uptake, successful speech acts, searle, griffe, gordon and layoff

Quote paper: Sebastian P. (Author), 2016, The Difference between Direct and Indirect Speech Acts. When Are Speech Acts Successful?, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/341843

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