Preface to the handbook series

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface to the handbook series v
3. Preface to this handbook ix
4. Table of contents xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. General issues
7. 1. Locution, illocution, perlocution 25
8. 2. Speaker’s meaning 77
9. 3. Implicating 107
10. 4. Presupposing 143
11. 5. Speech act classifications 173
12. 6. Performative utterances 203
13. 7. Mitigation 257
14. 8. Power in speech actions 287
15. 9. Speech Act Theory and intelligent software agents 313
16. 10. Speech Act Theory, ethnocentrism, and the multiplicity of meaning-making practices 339
17. Part II. Varieties of speech action
18. 11. Reference and attention 363
19. 12. Assertions 387
20. 13. Questions 411
21. 14. Requests 445
22. 15. Praising and blaming 467
23. 16. Promising 501
24. 17. Apologies 523
25. 18. Compliments 555
26. 19. Speech actions and registers in ritual contexts 587
27. 20. Speech actions in legal contexts 613
28. 21. Silence 659
29. 22. The structuring of discourse 685
30. About the authors 713
31. Name index 721
32. Subject index 726