Speech Acts in Interaction: A Critique of Searle.

Streeck, Jurgen

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Publication Date: 1980

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Speech Acts in Interaction: A Critique of Searle.

Streeck, Jurgen

Discourse Processes, v3 n2 p133-53 Apr-Jun 1980

Outlines some problems that emerged when speech act theory was applied to the analysis of natural discourse, traces these problems to basic flaws or misconceptions in J. R. Searle's theory, and proposes an alternative view of speech acts within the complex organization of discourse processes. (FL)

Descriptors: Child Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Discourse Analysis, Interaction Process Analysis, Linguistic Theory, Speech Communication, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)

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