Speech Act Theory: A Univen Study was undertaken to investigate the pragmatic value of the utterances of selected students at the University of Venda, South Afr

Any study of communication must take into account the nature and role of speech acts in a broad context. This book addresses questions such as: - What do we mea

In the study of language, as in any other systematic study, there is no neutral terminology. Every technical term is an expression of the assumptions and theore

Foundations of Speech Act Theory investigates the importance of speech act theory to the problem of meaning in linguistics and philosophy. The papers in this vo

This book investigates the notion of Speech Act from a cross-cultural perspective. The starting point for this book is the assumption that speech acts are reali