The Language of Argument
2 3 S p e e c h A c t s The first sentence states a fact. We can use it to communicate information about something that Barry Bo ...
2 4 C H A P T E R 2 ■ T h e W e b o f L a n g u a g e The thereby test includes an important qualification: The context of the u ...
2 5 S p e e c h A c t s I am sorry for being late. (This describes one’s feelings and could be false.) Yesterday I bid sixty dol ...
2 6 C H A P T E R 2 ■ T h e W e b o f L a n g u a g e Kinds of Speech Acts Recognizing explicit performatives introduces us to a ...
2 7 S p e e c h A c t s Still, the same speech act can also be accomplished without any perfor- mative verb. I can deny my oppon ...
2 8 C H A P T E R 2 ■ T h e W e b o f L a n g u a g e Do the speech acts in which people get married presuppose that the people ...
2 9 C o n v e r s a t i o n a l A c t s Suppose, for example, Amy says to Bobbi, “Someone is following us.” In this case, Amy ha ...
3 0 C H A P T E R 2 ■ T h e W e b o f L a n g u a g e utterance, he performs a linguistic act of uttering this meaningful senten ...
3 1 C o n v e r s a t i o n a l A c t s Conversational Rules Just as there are rules that govern linguistic acts and other rules ...
3 2 C H A P T E R 2 ■ T h e W e b o f L a n g u a g e saying that there is a fire extinguisher just down the hall, but you bury ...
3 3 C o n v e r s a t i o n a l A c t s Indicate which, if any, of Grice’s conversational rules are violated by the italicized s ...
3 4 C H A P T E R 2 ■ T h e W e b o f L a n g u a g e Still, people do not always follow these conversational rules. They with- ...
3 5 C o n v e r s a t i o n a l A c t s Notice that in each of these exchanges B gives a direct and accurate answer to A’s quest ...
3 6 C H A P T E R 2 ■ T h e W e b o f L a n g u a g e Rhetorical Devices Many rhetorical devices work by openly violating conver ...
3 7 C o n v e r s a t i o n a l A c t s With a metaphor, we also compare certain items, but without words such as “like” or “as. ...
3 8 C H A P T E R 2 ■ T h e W e b o f L a n g u a g e Summary In this chapter we have developed a rather complex picture of the ...
3 9 S u m m a r y NOTES (^1) J. L. Austin used the phrase “locutionary act” to refer to a level of language closely related to w ...
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4 1 The Language of Argument Using the techniques developed in Chapter 2, this chapter will examine the use of language to formu ...
4 2 C H A P T E R 3 ■ T h e L a n g u a g e o f A r g u m e n t There are other ways of linking these sentences to form an argum ...
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