Speech Acts across Cultures: Teaching Compliment Exchanges
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Speech Acts
When we speak we can do all sorts of things, from aspirating a consonant, to constructing a relative clause, to insulting a guest, to starting a war. These are all, pre-theoretically, speech acts—acts done in the process of speaking. The theory of speech acts, however, is especially concerned with those acts that are not completely covered under one or more of the major divisions of grammar—pho...
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عنوان ژورنال: East-West Cultural Passage
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2067-5712
DOI: 10.2478/ewcp-2020-0008