Speech Acts and Relevance: in Search of a Dialogue

This paper comments on the notion of the speech act in the tradition of J.L. Austin (1962/1975) in an attempt to assess its relevance (sic!) in a relevance-theory-based research. Relevance theory (RT) since its introduction (Sperber & Wilson 1986/1995) has consistently rejected much of speech ac...

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Main Author: Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Lodz University Press 2023-12-01
Series:Research in Language
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Online Access:https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/research/article/view/21575