User talk:BerberichA2/sandbox
This will be the shared Sandbox for Speech Acts.BerberichA (talk) 18:50, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
Anthony's Comments
[edit]I am initially having a difficult time deciding what I can modify on this page. Speech Act is a very specific subtopic of Linguistics, one that inherently requires a foundational understanding of utterances. Perhaps I can go through and elaborate on some of the technical terminology that is included in order to make the material more understandable to a lay audience. In the process, I can add some examples from class of how these terms relate to the law. Some terms that I noted so far are: illocutions, utterance, speech act. Some areas that I could add examples are in the "Indirect Speech Act" section and also the "Speech Acts in Action" section.
Possible Resources: 1. Solan & Tiersma: Ch. 4, "Interrogation, Confession, and the Right to Counsel" 2. Searle, John. (1965) What is a speech act? In M. Black (Ed.), Philosophy in America: pp. 221-239. BerberichA (talk) 03:43, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
Jericho's comments
Hey Anthony! I agree on that we should work on the technical terms so that people who do not have a linguistic background can understand it easier. I also agree that the examples could also use some work.JerichoB (talk) 17:47, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
Following substantially an account of H. P. Grice, Searle suggests that we are able to derive meaning out of indirect speech acts by means of a cooperative process out of which we are able to derive multiple illocutions; however, the process he proposes does not seem to accurately solve the problem BerberichA (talk) 22:07, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
A locutionary act: the performance of an utterance: the actual utterance and its apparent meaning, comprising any and all of its verbal, social, and rhetorical meanings, all of which correspond to the verbal, syntactic and semantic aspects of any meaningful utterance — Preceding unsigned comment added by BerberichA (talk • contribs) 22:35, 17 April 2019 (UTC)