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Barish, Steven Mark.

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Face-threatening speech acts: Their implications for speech act theory.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Face-threatening speech acts: Their implications for speech act theory./
Author:	Barish, Steven Mark.
Description:	355 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-09, Section: A, page: 3257.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International52-09A.
Subject:	Language, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9205167

Face-threatening speech acts: Their implications for speech act theory.
Barish, Steven Mark.

Face-threatening speech acts: Their implications for speech act theory. - 355 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-09, Section: A, page: 3257.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Georgetown University, 1991.

Speech act theory has successfully shown how we accomplish many actions (e.g. promising and baptizing) by way of our words. These acts can be accomplished by using the performative formula: I (hereby) Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018089
Language, General.

Face-threatening speech acts: Their implications for speech act theory.
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520 $a Speech act theory has successfully shown how we accomplish many actions (e.g. promising and baptizing) by way of our words. These acts can be accomplished by using the performative formula: I (hereby) $\ underline{\qquad} $ you that $\ underline{\qquad}. $ There are, however, acts such as teasing, flirting, insulting, and so forth, that do not take a performative formula in English. A version of speech act theory that does not account for these acts omits many acts that are both used and recognized by language users in a society.
520 $a This study uses conversations from literary fiction to analyze four face-threatening acts: criticisms, insults, complaints, and threats. None of these acts can take a performative formula in English. The methodology calls for classifying the four face-threatening acts in the conversations and analyzing the inferential processes and the social variables that influenced the classifications. Criticisms are found to be the base of the other three acts and the social variables found to be salient are topic, relationships, and setting. I draw from my analysis of these acts to focus on five key issues in speech act theory: units of analysis, felicity, indeterminacy, indirection, and perlocutionary effects.
520 $a The study finds that verbs, sentences, and contextual variables are all units that provide information that enables hearers to understand speech acts. Although a description of felicity conditions is seen as a necessary first step in the study of individual acts, the process of understanding speech acts is inherently indeterminate. Indirectness is pervasive and varied. Finally, two kinds of perlocutionary effects are significant: intention recognition and subsequent behavior.
520 $a To summarize, this study concludes that speech act theory can incorporate non-performative acts by expanding the analysis of the role of inferencing. Although the importance of inferencing has been discussed by other scholars, this study shows that the social variables of topic, setting, and relationships complicate the inferencing process to the degree that there can be no certain mapping from utterance to act.
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