Full Description
This book provides an account of the speech acts of modern Irish (assertive, directive, commissive, expressive, declarative, and indirect speech acts), and their various significant clausal / sentential constructions. The study is strongly descriptive in the first instance while delivering an analysis of these diverse speech acts of Irish in a way that is intended to strike a balance between depiction, explanation, and technical characterisation. The choice of topics, the characterisation of speech and illocutionary acts, covered in this study is guided primarily by speech act theory. It relates the speech acts of Irish to each other, and looks to define each, in terms of their relationship to the situation of the utterance reflecting real-time language-in-use, with context and common ground, to identify their important properties.
This book is intended for a broad and diverse scholarly audience. Primarily, it is intended to be of value to linguists interested in the pragmatics of Irish. Linguists studying the interaction of syntax, semantics and pragmatics are likely to find many of the descriptions and analyses of the speech act language phenomena interesting and useful.
Contents
1. The Speech Acts of Irish
2. The Role of Situation, Context, and Common Ground in Speech Acts
3. Understanding Speech Acts
4. The Assertive Speech Act
5. The Evidential Utterance as a Type of Assertive Speech Act
6. The Directive Speech Acts
7. The Question as a Type of Directive Speech Act
8. The Commissive Speech Act
9. The Expressive Speech Act
10. The Declarative Speech Act
11. Indirect Speech Acts
12. Concluding Comments on the Speech Acts of Irish
References
Index
