Nicolas Ruytenbeek

Indirect Speech Acts

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Indirect communication is a phenomenon pervasive in our daily lives. This book explores this fascinating topic, and provides insights into the psychological processes and the social dynamics underlying indirect communication. Adopting a truly interdisciplinary perspective, it will appeal to students and scholars from diverse backgrounds.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9781108483179
• ISBN-10: 1108483178
• Artikelnr.: 60691699

Autorenporträt

Nicolas Ruytenbeek specializes in experimental approaches to speech acts and politeness, using a combination of corpus data and psychophysiological methods. He is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication, Ghent University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Classic Speech Act Theoretic Approaches
2. The Semantics of Sentence-Types
3. Cognitive and Relevance-Based Approaches
4. The Comprehension of ISAs
5. Indirectness, Politeness, and the Social Context
6. Computational and Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Indirectness
7. Conclusion
References
Index.