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Speech acts and speech act sequences: greetings and farewells in the history of American English

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2017
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Jucker, A. H. (2017). Speech acts and speech act sequences: greetings and farewells in the history of American English. Studia Neophilologica, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/00393274.2017.1358662

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Greetings and farewells mark the boundaries of conversations; they are often formulaic and are generally claimed to be devoid of propositional content. However, they are often embedded in longer exchanges, and within such exchanges individual expressions may or may not have propositional content. This contribution discusses some of the inherent problems of retrieving speech acts, such as greetings and farewells, from a corpus. This is illustrated with a diachronic analysis of greetings and farewells in two hundred years of American En

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salutations, diachronic pragmatics, corpus pragmatics, Corpus of Historical American English COHA, discursive speech act value

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English

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2017-08-04

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0039-3274

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Jucker, A. H. (2017). Speech acts and speech act sequences: greetings and farewells in the history of American English. Studia Neophilologica, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/00393274.2017.1358662

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