Shan Shan Tam
Biographic Data
| ID | 10655362 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shan Shan Tam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shan Shan |
| FAMILY NAME | Tam |
| SIGNATURE | TAM S S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wellesley College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“On Indirect Speech Acts and Linguistic Communication
Suppose a diner says, ‘Can you pass the salt?’ Although her utterance is literally a question (about the physical abilities of the addressee), most would take it as a request (that the addressee pass the salt). In such a case, the request is performed indirectly by way of directly asking a question. Accordingly this utterance is known as an indirect speech act. On the standard account of such speech acts, a single utterance constitutes two distin…
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“On Indirect Speech Acts and Linguistic Communication
Suppose a diner says, ‘Can you pass the salt?’ Although her utterance is literally a question (about the physical abilities of the addressee), most would take it as a request (that the addressee pass the salt). In such a case, the request is performed indirectly by way of directly asking a question. Accordingly this utterance is known as an indirect speech act. On the standard account of such speech acts, a single utterance constitutes two distin…
Argument (complex analysis) (1 work) · Direct speech (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (1 work) · Indirect speech (1 work) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (1 work) · Linguistic research and analysis (1 work) · Linguistics (1 work) · Philosophy (1 work) · Psychology (1 work)