The Speech Acts of Irish: Utterance, Situation and Meaning

by Brian Nolan

Book Overview

This book provides an account of the speech acts of modern Irish (assertive, directive, commissive, expressive, declarative, and indirect speech acts), and their various significant clausal / sentential constructions. The study is strongly descriptive in the first instance while delivering an analysis of these diverse speech acts of Irish in a way that is intended to strike a balance between depiction, explanation, and technical characterisation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800504284
• ISBN13: 9781800504288
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Equinox Publishing
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.