SPEECH ACTS
Ronald Carter and Michael McCarthy
(2006) reprinted from Cambridge Grammar of
English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 680–684.
The reading below is another extract from the Cambridge Grammar of English (see also D6).
It comprises the first part of the chapter on speech acts. It first of all describes the concept of
speech act and then goes on to discuss how this relates to the clause types that were discussed
in B9. As in the previous extract modals are again involved, showing just how versatile this group
of auxiliaries is in English.
Note that ‘speech acts’ do not only refer to speech, though they are more obvious there
because of their interpersonal nature; they can also be identified in writing.
D9
Ronald
Carter and
Michael
McCarthy
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