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Speech Act Functions

Speech Act Functions is a theoretical construct in pragmatics that identifies the specific communicative purposes fulfilled by proverbs in discourse, distinguishing them within speech act theory by their conventionalized, culturally embedded roles in performing acts such as advising, warning, or evaluating.

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450

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241

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2017–2026

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333

Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language.

William P. Alston, John R. Searle · The Philosophical Quarterly · 1970 · 3.9K citations

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Linguistic Communication and Speech Acts.

Warren Ingber, Kent Bach, Robert M. Harnish · The Philosophical Review · 1982 · 2.5K citations

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Different cultures, different languages, different speech acts

Anna Wierzbicka · Journal of Pragmatics · 1985 · 725 citations

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The things we do with words: Ilongot speech acts and speech act theory in philosophy

Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo · Language in Society · 1982 · 696 citations

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Research Methods in Interlanguage Pragmatics

Gabriele Kasper, Merete Dahl · Studies in Second Language Acquisition · 1991 · 660 citations

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Authors

450

  1. AP
    Asep Purwo Yudi Utomo

    State University of Semarang, Indonesia

    4 publications · 76 citations

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  2. JR
    John R. Searle

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    4 publications · 4.4K citations

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  3. DZ
    Dániel Z. Kádár

    Dalian University of Foreign Languages, China

    4 publications · 119 citations

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  4. NT
    Naoko Taguchi

    Carnegie Mellon University, United States

    4 publications · 100 citations

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  5. JH
    Juliane House

    Universität Hamburg, Germany

    4 publications · 119 citations

    4

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Institutions

241

  1. State University of Semarang

    Semarang, Indonesia

    5 h-index

    11 publications

    182 citations

  2. ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics

    Budapest, Hungary

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    137 citations

  3. Dalian University of Foreign Languages

    Dalian, China

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    189 citations

  4. Victoria University of Wellington

    Wellington, New Zealand

    4 h-index

    10 publications

    1.3K citations

  5. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    140 citations

  6. Universität Hamburg

    Hamburg, Germany

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    119 citations

  7. Lancaster University

    Lancaster, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    396 citations

  8. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    403 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Pragmatics

    29 publications · 2.6K citations

    21

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  2. Language

    9 publications · 1.5K citations

    9

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  3. The Philosophical Quarterly

    7 publications · 4.8K citations

    7

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  4. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 5 publications · 305 citations

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  5. ELT Journal

    3 publications · 291 citations

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