Speech acts and clause types : English in a cross-linguistic context : english in a cross-linguistic context

Bok av Peter Siemund
This book is an introduction to the relationship between the morphosyntactic properties of sentences and their associated illocutionary forces or force potentials. It draws on insights from linguistics, philosophy, and sociology, and may be used as a textbook for undergraduate or graduate courses in semantics, pragmatics, and morphosyntax.