The Scene of Linguistic Action and its Perspectivization by SPEAK, TALK, SAY and TELL

by René Dirven, Louis Goossens, Emma Vorlat

The four papers presented in this volume are corpus-based investigations into the meaning of the verbs speak , talk , say and tell . More specifically they want to explore how the scene of linguistic action has been put into perspective by these four high-frequency verbs.

191 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1982