Is Sybil there? the structure of some American English directives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2116872 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Μ Ervin-Tripp (corresponding author), Susan Ervin-Tripp |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-66 |
| Publication date | 1976-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language in Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0047404500006849 |
| OpenAlex | W2022123132 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 309 |
| References cited | 15 |
Directives to hearers can be expressed in a variety of syntactic forms. The social distribution of such forms shows them to occur systematically, according to familiarity, rank, territorial location, difficulty of task, whether or not a duty is normally expected, whether or not non-compliance is likely. Except for some hints and questions not mentioning what is desired, directives do not require inference from a prior literal interpretation to be understood. Indeed, misunderstandings and puns imply that the interpretation of many directives is not likely to include a literal phase. On the contrary, where knowledge of obligations and prohibitions is shared, simple interpretation rules suffice, allowing prompt understanding. To interpret the affective significance of directives, one must compare the expected and realized forms, and recognize the social features that the difference implies. Deference, solidarity, coldness, sarcasm, rudeness, and qualitatively specified compliments or insults can be communicated systematically by such departures. (Pragmatics, directives, requests, politeness, conversational analysis, performatives, US English
Deference · Inference · Interpretation (philosophy) · Irony · Linguistics · Literal (mathematical logic) · Literal and figurative language · Performative utterance · Politeness · Pragmatics · Rank (graph theory) · Sarcasm · Variety (cybernetics) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism
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| Unique citing works | 309 |
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| Citations per year | 6,18 |
| Citation span | 1976 - 2026 (51) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 258 |