Call for Papers: ESSE 2008

Von: gna
Seminar on Methodological Perspectives on Communicative Functions: Definition, Identification and Classification August 22-26, 2008 - Aarhus, Denmark Submission deadline: 1 March 2008

The notion of communicative function is invoked in discourse studies to

define speech acts, genres, text types, and to account for macro/micro

properties of linguistic constructs like their rhetorical structure,

lexical encoding, and addresser-addressee's role-relationships. Yet, it is

an elusive notion, which may refer to: language's role in interaction, a

text's purpose, the addresser's illocutionary intent, an utterance/move's

semantic contribution to a communicative exchange.

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