Speech acts theory has been widely studied in linguistics, but applied into analyzing literature works has been very few. This paper interprets Mark Twain's short novel "Is He Living or Is He Dead" from ...Speech acts theory has been widely studied in linguistics, but applied into analyzing literature works has been very few. This paper interprets Mark Twain's short novel "Is He Living or Is He Dead" from the perspective of the speech acts theory of pragmatics.展开更多
文摘Speech acts theory has been widely studied in linguistics, but applied into analyzing literature works has been very few. This paper interprets Mark Twain's short novel "Is He Living or Is He Dead" from the perspective of the speech acts theory of pragmatics.