I cannot predict what someone will think: youtube.com/shorts/1-PQy...
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John Searle lijkt bij zijn dood te worden gecanceld door de Amerikaanse media. Gelukkig maken de Britse kranten het nu goed www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Zie voor een persoonlijke hommage aan Searle in het Nederlands: neerlandistiek.nl/2025/10/ik-b...
#speechacts #socialreality #sexualparanoia

John Searle obituary American philosopher whose Chinese Room thought experiment rebuts the idea that computers can think as humans do

Philosopher John Searle appears to be posthumously cancelled by the American media. Thankfully, the British press — notably @thetimes.com and @theguardian.com — is setting the record straight. #speechacts #socialreality #sexualparanoia www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Speech Acts in English Cambridge Core - Semantics and Pragmatics - Speech Acts in English

Speech Acts in English published by @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org @universitypress.cambridge.org continues to receive positive reviews. Check out the latest one at ➡️ doi.org/10.54475/jlt... doi.org/10.1017/9781... #pragmatics #speechacts #constructions #cogntiivelinguistics

First presentation of the #SpeechActs workshop at #ICAME46: Niall Curry and Dawn Archer presenting an exploratory study on indirect questions in the Spoken BNC2014. Question marks not enough for retrieval so they used various meta-discursive expressions to look for items of interest

This monograph on #SpeechActs was published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social in 2021.It has received several positive reviews and is now currently being translated into Chinese by #ZhejiangUP. If you work in #ESL #EFL or #ConstructionGrammar, this may be of interest.Happy #WorldBookDay ! ➡️ bit.ly/44echH1

Last week an international workshop was held at @inalco.bsky.social on constructional accounts of language (construction grammar/unités préfabriquées de l'interaction). #SpeechActs are hard to deal with constructionally, but some interesting proposals were made and discussed➡️ doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Oops, that's today already! "Speech Acts in Formal and Informal Interactions in English: Mapping the Past, Exploring the Future" @ ICAME-Conference in Vilnius #SpeechActs #CorpusLinguistics

#Time #isShort.

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#ThankYou🙏 & #good #night
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You might think it mad or naive to be posting on a day like this. But every day there is terrible suffering somewhere. We can't forget to inhabit the language of love and care. Words are not benign. They are mapped into our brains - memories, emotions, intent, deeds. #SpeechActs

Our PhD candidate @daniel__pascual contributes to this latest issue with a paper on #SpeechActs in #TravelBlogs
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