Book of Donmon Teith

A direct successor to Searle's Speech Acts (C.U.P. 1969), Expression and Meaning refines earlier analyses and extends speech-act theory to new areas including i

First published in 1981, Let's Talk and Talk About It is regarded as a cornerstone of research in pragmatics, which laid new and lasting foundations for the tea

This book merges theory and practical activities to show how research on speech acts can be implemented in EFL teaching.

Provides a pedagogic interactional grammar of English for teachers, as well as learners and experts of pragmatics and applied linguistics.

Did earlier speakers of English use the same speech acts that we use today? Did they use them in the same way? How did they signal speech act values and how did