Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

Direct and Indirect Speech Acts in English

This book is corrected and edited by Al-Hassanain (p) Institue for Islamic Heritage and Thought

• Introduction
• 1. Language, Speech Acts and Performatives
• 1.1. Explicit and Implicit Performatives
• 1.2. Felicity Conditions
• 2. The Locutionary, Illocutionary and Perlocutionary Acts
• 2.1. Locutionary Acts
• 2.2. Illocutionary Acts
• 2.3. Perlocutionary Acts
• 3. Indirectness
• 3.1. The Theory of Implicature, the Cooperative Principle and Maxims
• 4. Life x 3
• 4.1. Direct speech Acts As a Reaction to Direct Speech Acts
• 4.2. Indirect Speech As a Reaction to Direct Speech Acts
• 4.3. Direct Speech As a Reaction to Indirect Speech Acts
• 4.4. Indirect Speech As a Reaction to Indirect Speech Acts
• 4.5. Data Evaluation
• Conclusion
• Czech résumé
• Bibliography
• Appendix
• Notes