Book of Donmon Teith

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

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

The first handbook to survey and expand the burgeoning field of corpus pragmatics, the intersection of pragmatics and corpus linguistics.

'This small but tightly packed volume is easily the most substantial discussion of speech acts since John Austin's How To Do Things With Words and one of the mo

In the study of language, as in any other systematic study, there is no neutral terminology. Every technical term is an expression of the assumptions and theore