The Speech Acts of Irish

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Focusing on the speech acts of modern Irish, this book explores various types such as assertive, directive, commissive, expressive, and declarative acts, along with their significant clausal and sentential constructions. Aimed at a diverse scholarly audience, it offers valuable insights for linguists interested in the pragmatics of the Irish language. Additionally, those studying the interplay between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics will find the analyses and descriptions of speech act phenomena particularly engaging and beneficial.