Speech acts in corpus pragmatics - making the case for an extended taxonomy

What is it about?

The aim of this article is to illustrate how the use of restricted speech-act taxonomies, such as Austin's or Searle's may lead to oversimplified or potentially misleading impressions regarding the communicative functions expressed in spoken interaction. To improve on this situation, the article demonstrates how a more elaborate taxonomy, the DART taxonomy, may help us gain better insights into the pragmatic strategies that occur in dialogues.

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Why is it important?

It's important because it illustrates an improved methodology and taxonomy for labelling and describing speech acts, in contrast pointing out the shortcomings that exist in smaller, less fine-grained, taxonomies.