Speech Acts Discursive, Multimodal, Diachronic
Speech Acts Discursive, Multimodal, Diachronic by Andreas H. Jucker, published by Cambridge University Press on October 24, 2024, is a concise exploration of contemporary issues in the study of speech acts. This 76-page work outlines four significant waves of speech act theory, including philosophical, experimental, corpus-based, and discursive approaches. It examines early methods and their evolution, providing a foundation for understanding current trends in speech act research.
Readers will find a detailed discussion on how discursive approaches shift the focus from individual utterances to interactional sequences, while multimodal approaches expand the definition of ‘speech act’ to encompass various communicative forms. The book also addresses diachronic perspectives that emphasize the historical context of speech acts. Additionally, it concludes with an examination of unresolved issues and potential future directions in the field, making it a relevant resource for those interested in language, semantics, and the social sciences.
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This Element outlines current issues in the study of speech acts. It starts with a brief outline of four waves of speech act theory, that is, the philosophical, the experimental, the corpus-based and the discursive approaches. It looks at some of the early experimental and corpus-based methods and discusses their more recent developments as a background to the most important trends in current speech act research. Discursive approaches shift the focus from single utterances to interaction and interactional sequences. Multimodal approaches show that the notion of ‘speech act’ needs to be extended in order to cover the multimodality of communicative acts. And diachronic approaches focus on the historicity of speech acts. The final section discusses some open issues and potential further developments of speech act research.
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