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== Forthcoming talk==
 
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In his programmatic publication How to Do Things with Words John Austin estimates that there are between 1,000 and 9,999 different speech acts. Of these illocutions, only a handful has been empirically and systematically analysed. ‘Famous’ illocutions include requests, apologies and compliment (responses). Suggestions, on the other hand, belong to the vast group of speech acts which have so far been largely neglected by researchers. They are, however, an interesting case because they not only seem to challenge Searle’s (1976) very influential classification of illocutionary types but they also share many attributes and surface realisations with other speech acts (e.g. requests and offers). This functional overlap has raised the question of how conversationalists are able to (correctly) identify the illocution, i.e. the speaker’s intention, of a speech act. The talk will give an overview of how suggestions are realised in British and American English and will provide ideas of how identification of illocutions can be studied in spoken language.
 
  
  

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Research Colloquium of the English Department

Our colloquium addresses a broad variety of research topics in English and American Studies and offers up-and-coming as well as established scholars a chance to present their current projects to colleagues and students. Fields of research include literary and cultural studies, didactics, and linguistics.

The colloquium takes place during lecture periods on selected Wednesday nights starting at 6:15 pm in A6 2-212. A 45-minute lecture is usually followed by a discussion of up to 30 minutes.

All interested students and colleagues, also from other fields of study, are welcome to experience research outside the classroom and to engage in critical discussions.

If you are interested in presenting a paper in our research colloquium or for futher questions, please contact the organizers: Dr. des. Holger Limberg (Linguistics/Didactics), h.limberg@uni-oldenburg.de or Dr. des. Annika Pherson (Literary and Cultural Studies), annika.mcpherson@uni-oldenburg.de

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Schedule for the winter term 09/10:

20 January 2010:
Prof. Dr. Monika Rottweiler (University of Bremen)
"Mehrsprachige Kinder und spezifische Sprachentwicklungsstörung"


27 January 2010:

Ilka Flöck (University of Oldenburg)
“Let's listen to The Commitments, you wanna?”: Realising and identifying suggestions in spoken English conversations


03 February 2010:

Christian Lassen (University of Oldenburg)
"Campy Comforts: Reparative Gay Literature in Times of AIDS"


Forthcoming talk

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