Speech Act Theory and Negation

A Contrastive View on Illocutionary Negations in Spoken and Written Discourse

Dossier / Travail , 2023 , 22 Pages , Note: 2,7

Philologie Anglaise - Linguistique

The aim of this work is split in three parts. The first aim is to give an overview of speech act theory and how the grammatical phenomenon of negation is situated in Austin’s and Searle’s speech act theory. Secondly, Tottie’s study on negation in spoken and written discourse will be extended by some findings on the frequency of illocutionary negations in spoken discourse and magazines. Finally, a functional analysis of propositional negation and illocutionary negation is carried out based on examples.

• Université: University of Augsburg
• Cours: Pragmatics: Disagreements and Rejections
• Note: 2,7
• Auteur: Peter Altmannsdorfer (Auteur)
• Année de publication: 2023
• Pages: 22
• N° de catalogue: V1597898
• ISBN (PDF): 9783389140680
• ISBN (Livre): 9783389140697
• Langue: anglais
• mots-clé: Disagreements, Rejections, Gricean Model of Communication, Pragmatics, Speech Act Theory, Corpus Analysis