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Title |
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The Question as a Type of Directive Speech Act - The Speech Acts of Irish |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Brian Nolan; Technological University Dublin (retired); |
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Linguistics |
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directive speech act; question; Irish language; linguistic pragmatics; functional linguistics; epistemology; philosophy of language; speech act theory; natural language understanding; AI; Celtic |
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Subject classification |
Syntax; Semantics; Pragmatics; Irish Language |
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Description |
Abstract |
Questions are directive speech acts and an attempt by S to get H to provide an answer to the question. In chapter 7, The question as a type of directive speech act, we characterise in substantial detail the pragmatic dimensions of the question forms of Irish and the various functions of these questions. When S asks a question of H, S requests that H perform a speech act of providing an answer-response to S’s question. Importantly, the form of the response is determined by the propositional content of the question. Irish has three questions forms: alternate questions, polar yes-no interrogatives, and information questions. Questions are best understood as part of a dialogue with a chain of speech acts. The required response to one of these question forms may be constrained in certain ways depending on the nature of the question. Therefore, to gain a more complete insight into the question forms and their functions, we consider the nature of answers given in response. |
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Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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15-May-2024 |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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PDF |
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Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/44648 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.44648 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; The Speech Acts of Irish |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Rights |
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Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |