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Speech acts

Index of SIL publications on Speech acts listed by country.

See only SIL publications on Speech acts available online or for purchase from SIL International Publications.

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General works

• CLOSE, David Michael, author. 1998. Avoiding silence during card game conversations.
• EGNER, Inge, author. 1998. Review of: Speech acts and conversational interaction, by Michael L. Geis.
• EGNER, Inge, author. 2002. The speech act of promising in an intercultural perspective.  
• HARDIN, Karol J., author. 2010. "Trying to persuade: speech acts in the persuasive discourse of intermediate Spanish learners."  
• HUTTAR, George L., author. 1967. An experimental study of some relations between the emotions and the prosodic parameters of speech.
• HUTTAR, George L., author. 1977. Speech acts and translation.
• NICOLLE, Steve, author. 2000. "Communicated and non-communicated acts in relevance theory."

Works specific to particular countries

Americas

Mexico

• OLIVE, Julie Nan, author. 1995. Speech verbs in Xanaguía Zapotec narrative.