Barb Breustedt’s scientific contributions

... According to the terminological distinction used in this paper, they should be called illocutionary point indicating devices (IPIDs) because they primarily specify the function or purpose of the speech act in which they occur rather than the force with which this point is put across. Later work extended this method to computer searches for typical patterns beyond IPIDs (Jucker et al. 2008, for instance, searched the British National Corpus for strings that are typical for compliments, such as "NP looks (really) ADJ") and to the search for metacommunicative expressions (Jucker & Taavitsainen 2014, for instance, searched for the term "compliment" in the Corpus of Historical American English and the Corpus of Contemporary American English to find passages in which people talk about compliments; see also Schneider 2017). ...

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“Is That a Request or a Command?”: Speech Act Meta Discourse and Illocutionary Indeterminacy