Download or read book Speech Act Taxonomy as a Tool for Ethnographic Description written by Nira Reiss and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is intended to design measures for ethnographic description including speech acts in an etic instrumental approach, oriented toward an analysis of the functions of communicative events in relation to the ongoing stream of behavior. A revised taxonomy of speech acts is applied to an empirical corpus and is shown to produce a systematic set of behavioral measures which are potentially productive for cross-cultural comparison.