Peter S Golato

Biographic Data

ID3532086
NAMEPeter S Golato
GIVEN NAMESPeter S
FAMILY NAMEGolato
SIGNATUREGOLATO P S
AFFILIATIONSTexas State University
ORCID0000-0002-8919-5953
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS7
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Speech Acts and Grammar

    Open AccessAndrea Golato, Peter Golato et al.CHAPTEREncyclopedia of Applied Linguistics2025

    Linguists and language philosophers have long since recognized that language is used not only to describe states of affairs and events but also to do certain things (for instance, complaining, praising, etc.). The acts that a speaker performs when uttering a sentence are called speech acts. The term speech act goes back to the language philosophers John L. Austin and John R. Searle. The encyclopedic entry discusses what speech acts are, how they …

  • Hop(p)la in French and German

    Open AccessAndrea Golato, Peter S GolatoARTICLELanguages2025References: 27

    There is a growing body of conversation analytic research on the role of vocalizations and interjections in interaction. This conversation analytic article contributes to this research by comparing the use and functions of the interjection hop(p)la in French and German interaction. While hop(p)la occurs frequently in everyday French and German conversation, it has not been studied as it occurs in real time. The data come from publicly-available d…

  • How a Terminal Tag Can Display Epistemic Stance and Constrain Responses

    Veronika Drake, Andrea Golato et al.ARTICLEResearch on Language and Social…2021Cited by: 1References: 18

    This conversation analytic study explores German turn-final oder nich(t), as in Soll ich jetzt weiterlesen oder nicht ("should I continue reading or not"). These oder nicht-appended questions raise one state of affairs and invoke its negated version via oder nicht. They emerge in environments in which epistemics and/or deontics are negotiated. Through these turns, participants index their commitment to the likelihood of the state of affairs expre…

  • Pragmatics Research Methods

    Open AccessAndrea Golato, Peter Golato et al.CHAPTEREncyclopedia of Applied Linguistics2019

    This entry presents an overview of the different research methods (i.e., data collection and data analysis procedures) used in pragmatics research. Given that various theoretical approaches within pragmatics employ similar data collection and data analysis procedures, this entry is not organized by theoretical approach but by the research methods available. The section on data collection procedures is divided into three parts: it first discusses …

  • The real-time processing of pragmatics

    Open AccessPeter Golato, Peter S Golato et al.ARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics2018Cited by: 2References: 47

  • Reference repair in German and French

    Open AccessAndrea Golato, Peter Golato et al.ARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics2015Cited by: 4References: 22

  • Pragmatics Research Methods

    Open AccessAndrea Golato, Peter Golato et al.CHAPTEREncyclopedia of Applied Linguistics2012

    As the entries in this encyclopedia demonstrate, there are a number of theoretical approaches to the study of pragmatics, or language use. And similarly, there are a number of different research methods, that is, data collection techniques and subsequent data analysis procedures.

  • Speech Acts

    Open AccessAndrea Golato, Peter Golato et al.CHAPTEREncyclopedia of Applied Linguistics2012

    Linguists and language philosophers have long since recognized that language is not only used to describe states of affairs and events, but also to do certain things (for instance complaining, praising, etc.).