Chapter 13. Speech Acts and Relevance Theory

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
4. Part I. General Theory
5. Chapter 2. Universal Grammar and Speech Act Theory 25
6. Chapter 3. Verbal Mood and Sentence Moods in the Tradition of Universal Grammar 63
7. Chapter 4. How Performatives Work 85
8. Chapter 5. Possible Directions of Fit between Mind, Language and the World 109
9. Part II. Discourse and Interlocution
10. Chapter 6. Speech Acts and the logic of mutual understanding 121
11. Chapter 7. Utterance acts and speech acts 135
12. Chapter 8. An Ascription-Based Theory of Illocutionary Acts 151
13. Chapter 9. An approach for modelling and simulating conversations 175
14. Part III. Speech Acts in Linguistics
15. Chapter 10. Illocutionary Morphology and Speech Acts 209
16. Chapter 11. Speech-Act Constructions, Illocutionary Forces, and Conventionality 225
17. Chapter 12. Speech act theory and the analysis of conversation 239
18. Chapter 13. Speech Acts and Relevance Theory 263
19. Notes 285
20. References 303
21. Notes on Contributors 321
22. Subject Index 325
23. Name Index 343