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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

Wed, January 27th: Ilka Flöck (University of Oldenburg)

• “Let's listen to The Commitments, you wanna?”: Realising and identifying suggestions in spoken English conversations

Abstract:
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.

Archive and Planning

• Kolloquium/Archive
• Planning see: Talk:Kolloquium