Speech Acts and Languages for Special Purposes: A Speech Acts approach to ESP
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to explicit the possible extension of Speech Act theory to the analysis of sublanguages or Languages for Special Purposes , and to show in particular its relevance to the subset known as English for Special Purposes . I will primarily introduce an outline of LSP-ESP and of the Speech Act theory: then, through a survey on relevant literature, the modalities whereby Speech Acts could be made useful for English for Specific Purposes and, in so doing, I will attempt to make their applicability to ESP explicit and theory-informed, in order to reach a synthesis