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Prompting social action as a higher-order pragmatic act
Haugh, Michael. - : Springer International Publishing, 2016
Abstract: It is widely accepted in pragmatics that one of the key things accomplished through language in interaction is the delivery of actions. However, there is much less agreement as to how we might best theorise action vis-à-vis both what is said and what is left unsaid. While the focus in pragmatics was initially on speech acts, speech act theory has subsequently been critiqued for reducing an account of social action to the illocutionary intentions of speakers and for neglecting those actions that are not immediately salient in folk discourse. Pragmatic act theory (Mey J, Pragmatics. An introduction, 2nd edn. Blackwell, Oxford, 2001) offers a promising alternative to speech act theory in that it situates the analysis of action within discursive interaction. In this chapter, I consider the way in which pragmatic act theory can usefully inform the analysis of a set of inter-related social actions that comes under the umbrella of what might be termed “prompting”. Prompting social action involves one participant inviting another participant to initiate some kind of social action sequence, thereby avoiding accountability for having launched the social action in question. After discussing examples of the wide range of social actions that can be embedded within a prompting frame, with a particular focus on instances where invitations and proposals are prompted, I suggest that prompting social action more generally constitutes a higher-order pragmatic act.
Keyword: 1203 Language and Linguistics; 1211 Philosophy; 3202 Applied Psychology; 3310 Linguistics and Language; Intention; Interactional pragmatics; Invitations; Non-conventional indirectness; Pragmatic acts; Proposals; Speech acts
URL: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:419124
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International Students and the ‘English Problem’ in Australian Universities: A Discursive Perspective
Haugh, Michael. - : Australian Academic Press, 2015
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The functions of self-initiated self-repair in the second language Chinese classroom
Haugh, Michael; Eisenchlas, Susana; Simpson, Rebecca. - : Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2013
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Collaborative creation of spoken language corpora
Haugh, Michael; Chang, Melody. - : National Foreign Language Resource Center; University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 2013
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Implicature, inference and cancellability
Haugh, Michael. - : Springer International Publishing, 2013
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Tracking international students’ English proficiency over the first semester of undergraduate study
Humphreys, Pamela; Haugh, Michael; Fenton-Smith, Ben. - : IDP: IELTS Australia, 2012
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A metalinguistic approach to deconstructing the concepts of 'face' and 'politeness' in Chinese, English and Japanese
Haugh, Michael; Hinze, Carl. - : Elsevier Science, 2003
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