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September 1, 2026 at 8:08 PM
liontrump.bsky.social
#Time #isShort.

#Wheel #have #2use #shortcuts #2makeITsew. #Extreme #speechActs: #By #announcing #thePlan, #we #have #made #it #so. We #ARE #Ur #new #e-Taoiseach, #or #Leader, #if Ur #in #Europe. #Thanks, & #urWelcome. #Send #our #stipend #2the #crowfunder🙏💜👍🙏

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January 20, 2025 at 4:44 AM
lorenaph.bsky.social
Speech Acts in English published by @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org @universitypress.cambridge.org continues to receive positive reviews. Check out the latest one at ➡️ doi.org/10.54475/jlt... doi.org/10.1017/9781... #pragmatics #speechacts #constructions #cogntiivelinguistics
Speech Acts in English
Cambridge Core - Semantics and Pragmatics - Speech Acts in English
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July 12, 2025 at 8:37 AM
lorenaph.bsky.social
This monograph on #SpeechActs was published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social in 2021.It has received several positive reviews and is now currently being translated into Chinese by #ZhejiangUP. If you work in #ESL #EFL or #ConstructionGrammar, this may be of interest.Happy #WorldBookDay ! ➡️ bit.ly/44echH1
April 23, 2025 at 7:12 AM
lorenaph.bsky.social
Last week an international workshop was held at @inalco.bsky.social on constructional accounts of language (construction grammar/unités préfabriquées de l'interaction). #SpeechActs are hard to deal with constructionally, but some interesting proposals were made and discussed➡️ doi.org/10.1017/9781...
April 17, 2025 at 6:15 AM
intergediuz.bsky.social
Our PhD candidate @daniel__pascual contributes to this latest issue with a paper on #SpeechActs in #TravelBlogs
🔗Check it out ‼️

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April 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
sorinahiggins.bsky.social
I cannot predict what someone will think: youtube.com/shorts/1-PQy...
Tune in on Sunday for the full episode! #WordsDoThings #podcast #speechacts #religion #politics #theology #rhetoric
I Cannot Predict What Someone Will Think
YouTube video by Dr. Sørina Higgins
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November 7, 2025 at 12:28 AM
idpollypocket.bsky.social
zizek is evil but this bit from tarrying with the negative goes hard
Quote from tarrying with the negative “the paternal metaphor. The attitude of the Spinozist "wisdom" is therefore defined by the reduction of deontology to ontology, of injunction to rational knowledge, and, in terms of speechacts-theory, of performative to constative. An exemplary case is Spinoza's treatment of God's warning to Adam and Eve, "Don't eat the apple from the tree of ‹nowledge!": this pronouncement appears as a prohibition only to the finite mind unable to rasp the chain of causes which lie behind its message; injunctions and prohibitions are justified only where we have to deal with primitive minds which lack rational insight. A mind which has access to rational truth understands God's announcement not as a prohibition but as an insight into the state of things: this apple has properties injurious to health, which is why it is not advisable to eat it. The contemporary version of Spinoza's reading of God's message would therefore run as follows: "Warning! This apple can be harmful to your health, since the tree was sprinkled with pesticides."”
June 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM
koine-greek.com
These are all themes that Rachel Aubrey and @mikeaubrey.bsky.social are tackling in their paper at the Bible Translation Conference this coming October.

#linguistics #grammarwriting #speechacts
Biblical Language Grammars and the Barriers They Create, BTC23
In just over a month Rachel and Michael Aubrey will be presenting at the Bible Translation Conference 2023. We will be discussing the ways in which existing biblical language grammars, the ones that b...
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September 9, 2023 at 1:35 AM
seasonalight.com
You might think it mad or naive to be posting on a day like this. But every day there is terrible suffering somewhere. We can't forget to inhabit the language of love and care. Words are not benign. They are mapped into our brains - memories, emotions, intent, deeds. #SpeechActs
December 1, 2024 at 3:25 PM
sjgknight.bsky.social
Planning @utsart trip to see "#SpeechActs" Systems of knowledge & performativityV cool!

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January 7, 2025 at 11:37 PM
sofiaruediger.bsky.social
First presentation of the #SpeechActs workshop at #ICAME46: Niall Curry and Dawn Archer presenting an exploratory study on indirect questions in the Spoken BNC2014. Question marks not enough for retrieval so they used various meta-discursive expressions to look for items of interest
June 17, 2025 at 7:12 AM
sofiaruediger.bsky.social
Oops, that's today already! "Speech Acts in Formal and Informal Interactions in English: Mapping the Past, Exploring the Future" @ ICAME-Conference in Vilnius #SpeechActs #CorpusLinguistics
sofiaruediger.bsky.social Sofia Rüdiger @sofiaruediger.bsky.social · Dec 12
Call for Papers: Christine Elsweiler, @racheledf.bsky.social and I are organizing an ICAME workshop next year on "Speech Acts in Formal and Informal Interactions in English: Mapping the Past, Exploring the Future" (Vilnius, June 17). Due date: January 24, more information in the call!
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ICAME Workshop: Speech Acts in Formal and Informal Interactions in English: Mapping the Past, Exploring the Future Vilnius, June 17, 2025 Convenors: Rachele De Felice (Open University): rachele.de-felice@open.ac.uk Christine Elsweiler (University of Innsbruck): christine.elsweiler@uibk.ac.at Sofia Rüdiger (FU Berlin): sofia.ruediger@fu-berlin.de In recent decades, speech act use in English has received considerable attention, producing a substantial body of research drawing on both historical and present-day data. Studies have covered a range of speech acts, including, among others, apologies, compliments, requests and thanking. These have been explored across different types of interactions and communicative settings, such as authentic and fictional conversations (e.g., Schauer and Adolphs 2006, Culpeper and Archer 2008, Jucker and Taavitsainen 2008, Jucker et al. 2008, Jautz 2013, Jucker 2017, Haselow 2024), letter-writing, email correspondence and other types of computer-mediated communication (e.g., Lutzky and Kehoe 2017, Murphy and De Felice 2018, De Felice and Moreton 2019, Elsweiler 2024), courtroom discourse (Archer 2005, Kryk-Kastovsky 2009, Chaemsaithong 2018) as well as service encounters and other workplace interactions (e.g., Bös 2007, Vine 2009, Fox and Heinemann 2021, Barron 2022), to name but a select few. This body of work, drawing on spoken and written as well as naturally occurring and elicited data, has enabled us to develop an empirically-grounded understanding of speech act use across various forms of interaction, moving beyond their initial descriptions founded on individual intuitions. At the same time, the fact that this work is based on a wide range of sources and often (understandably) reflects specific research interests of individual scholars limits the comparability of findings for particular speech acts. This is the result of a number of factors, including – but not limited to – the use of different categorisation approaches to s… We are additionally interested in contributions which explicitly compare corpus-based speech act research to insights from other methodological approaches such as experimental studies, elicitation studies, etc. Abstracts should be between 400 and 500 words (excluding references) and should clearly state research question(s), approach, data, method, and (expected) results. Please send your abstract to christine.elsweiler@uibk.ac.at by 24 January 2025 References Archer, Dawn. 2005. Questions and Answers in the English Courtroom (1640–1760): A Sociopragmatic Analysis. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins. Barron, Anne. 2022. “‘Sorry Miss, I completely forgot about it’: Apologies and Vocatives in Ireland and England”. Stephen Lucek and Carolina P. Amador-Moreno (eds.). Expanding the Landscapes of Irish English Research: Papers in Honour of Dr. Jeffrey J. Kallen. New York: Routledge. 109–128. Bös, Birte. 2007. “What do you lacke? What is it you buy? Early Modern English Service Encounters”. Susan Fitzmaurice and Irma Taavitsainen (eds). Methods in Historical Pragmatics. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. 219–240. Chaemsaithong, Krisda. 2018. “Investigating Audience Orientation in Courtroom Communication: The Case of the Closing Argument”. Pragmatics and Society 9(4): 545–570. De Felice, Rachele and Emma Moreton. 2019. “Identifying Speech Acts in a Corpus of Historical Migrant Correspondence”. Studia Neophilologica: 91(2): 154–174. Elsweiler, Christine. 2024. “Modal May in Requests: A Comparison of Regional Pragmatic Variation in Early Modern Scottish and English Correspondence”. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 25(3): 355–391. Fox, Barbara A. and Trine Heinemann. 2021. “Are They Requests? An Exploration of Declaratives of Trouble in Service Encounters”. Research on Language and Social Interaction 54(1): 20–38. Haselow, Alexander. 2024. “Politeness, Speech acts and Socio-cultural Change: The Expression of Gratitude in the History of English”. Journal of Historical Pragmatics… Kryk-Kastovsky, Barbara. 2009. “Speech Acts in Early Modern English Court Trials”. Journal of Pragmatics 41(3): 440–457. Lutzky, Ursula and Andrew Kehoe. 2017. “‘I Apologise for my Poor Blogging’: Searching for Apologies in the Birmingham Blog Corpus”. Corpus Pragmatics 1(1): 37–56. Murphy, M. Lynne and Rachele de Felice. 2018. “Routine Politeness in American and British English Requests: Use and Non-use of Please”. Journal of Politeness Research 15(1): 77–100. Schauer, Gila and Svenja Adolphs. 2006. “Expressions of Gratitude in Corpus and DCT Data: Vocabulary, Formulaic sequences, and Pedagogy”. System 34(1): 119–134. Taavitsainen, Irma and Andreas H. Jucker. 2008. “‘Methinks You Seem More Beautiful than Ever’: Compliments and Gender in the History of English”. Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.). Speech Acts in the History of English. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins. 203–228. Vine, Bernadette. 2009. “Directives at Work: Exploring the Contextual Complexity of Workplace Directives”. Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language Studies 41(7): 1395–1405.
January 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
gijsmul.bsky.social
John Searle lijkt bij zijn dood te worden gecanceld door de Amerikaanse media. Gelukkig maken de Britse kranten het nu goed www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Zie voor een persoonlijke hommage aan Searle in het Nederlands: neerlandistiek.nl/2025/10/ik-b...
#speechacts #socialreality #sexualparanoia
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October 7, 2025 at 5:29 AM
gijsmul.bsky.social
Philosopher John Searle appears to be posthumously cancelled by the American media. Thankfully, the British press — notably @thetimes.com and @theguardian.com — is setting the record straight. #speechacts #socialreality #sexualparanoia www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
John Searle obituary
American philosopher whose Chinese Room thought experiment rebuts the idea that computers can think as humans do
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October 7, 2025 at 5:24 AM