Toward Multimodal Pragmatics - A Study of Illocutionary Force in Chinese Situated Discourse - Lihe Huang - Paperback Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - 2023
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Description
This study uses the multimodal corpus approach to examine how speakers use multiple devices to perform illocutionary acts and express illocutionary forces. The author combines qualitative and quantitative methods to show that illocutionary forces are multimodal in nature.