Indirect speech acts constitute a well known linguistic phenomenon, and at least one computational model, accounting for their recognition, has been available for a while [ALL,80] [ALL,83]. Looking at every day conversations gives evidence of a noteworthy phenomenon which looks very close. We decide to entitle it very indirect speech acts (VISA for short). The aim of this summary is to clarify the phenomenon and to give a first insight into the problems raised by it.
Cite as: Guyomard, M. (1991) Very indirect speech acts or how to keep up appearances. Proc. 2nd VENACO Workshop - The Structure of Multimodal Dialogue, 49-52
@inproceedings{guyomard91_smmd,
author={Marc Guyomard},
title={{Very indirect speech acts or how to keep up appearances}},
year=1991,
booktitle={Proc. 2nd VENACO Workshop - The Structure of Multimodal Dialogue},
pages={49--52}
}