Speech Act Taxonomy as a Tool for Ethnographic Description
An analysis based on videotapes of continuous behavior in two New York households
This study is intended to design measures for ethnographic description including speech acts in an etic instrumental approach, oriented toward an analysis of the functions of communicative events in relation to the ongoing stream of behavior. A revised taxonomy of speech acts is applied to an empirical corpus and is shown to produce a systematic set of behavioral measures which are potentially productive for cross-cultural comparison.
[Pragmatics & Beyond, VI:7] 1985. x, 153 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 November 2011
Published online on 21 November 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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List of Tables | p. vii
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Acknowledgments | p. ix
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1. Introduction | p. 1
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1.1. The background of the research
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1.2. An etic approach to speech acts
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1.3. The goals and strategy of the study
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2. The Ethnography of Speaking and the Ethnography of Doing | p. 11
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2.1. What emic definitions of speech acts can't do
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2.2. The limits of emically defined speech events and situations
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2.3. Speech acts and communicative intentions
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2.4. The taxonomy of speech acts
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3. Classifying Speech Acts | p. 37
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3.1. Intended effects
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3.2. Communicative intentions before language
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3.3. Comprehending speech acts in context
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3.4. Language devices expressing illocutionary acts
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4. The Structure of Speech Acts | p. 69
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4.1. Address
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4.2. Motivators
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4.3. The analysis of modality & modulation
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4.4. Procedures
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5. Behavioral Counts of Speech Acts | p. 97
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5.1. Defining measures based on the taxonomy of speech acts
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5.2. Coding Directive and Commissive measures
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5.3. The other speech act measures
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5.4. Conclusions
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Footnotes | p. 125
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Appendix A: Transcript of conversation in one household 5:05 P.M. to 5:19 P.M. | p. 139
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Appendix B: Speaking about the day's events: One side of a telephone talk | p. 149
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General