1. Setting the stage -- 2. The SAP and the politeness f-feature -- 3. The SAP, CommitP, and sentence final particles -- 4. Is the judgment phrase needed? A view from topicalization -- 5. Questions and the commitment phrase -- 6. Concluding thoughts: The uniqueness of human language
Summary
"A syntactic analysis of and solution to the semantic problem: how can speakers convey the same meaning using different speech acts?"-- Provided by publisher
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and a subject and name index
