Toward Multimodal Pragmatics: A Study of Illocutionary Force in Chinese Situated Discourse

ISBN-13: 9781032170916 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 338 str.

Lihe Huang

Opis

This study uses the multimodal corpus approach to examine how speakers use multiple devices to perform illocutionary acts and express illocutionary forces. The author combines qualitative and quantitative methods to show that illocutionary forces are multimodal in nature.

Spis treści

Foreword: multimodality and pragmatics. Preface: developing multimodal pragmatics from speech act study. 1. Some preliminary remarks. 2. Situated discourse and multimodal corpus. 3. Illocutionary force study: basic methodology and theory. 4. Discovery procedure of live illocutionary force. 5. Collecting and processing multimodal data. 6. Developing a multimodal corpus of speech acts in situated discourse. 7. Types and tokens of illocutionary force in situated discourse. 8. Dynamic interaction of illocutionary forces in situated discourse. 9. A multimodal study of illocutionary force: what has been found?. 10. Developing multimodal pragmatics.