Linguistic action : some empirical-conceptual studies
xi, 151 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780893913656, 0893913650
15053963
Introduction, the empirical-conceptual approach / Jef Verschueren
The lexicalization of linguistic action and its relation to literacy / Maurizio Gnerre
Derivational relationships and lexical analysis : an examination of Quechua speech act verbs / Joan Manes
Speech act verbs, linguistic action verbs, and delocutivity / Jean-Claude Anscrombre, Fraņcoise Létoublon, and Alain Pierrot
Reported speech in Navajo myth narratives / James Collins
Performative verbs in modern Greek and their syntactical complements / Theodossia Pavlidou
Dealing with linguistic action verbs in depth / Louis Goossens
Some basic linguistic action verbs of Egyptian Arabic and Israeli Hebrew / Robert Sturm
Metapragmatics and universals of linguistic action / Jef Verschueren
"Basically intended as a companion to: What people say they do with words [c1985]"--Preface
Includes indexes