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Abstract
This article adopts a cognitive-linguistic perspective on
communication through indirect speech acts in Patrick White’s novel, “The
Aunt’s Story.” We employ the notion of indirect speech acts as a tool for
analyzing listener responses in indirect communication events. The responses to
indirect speech act coordinate communication, providing a conceptually unified
understanding or misunderstanding of the indirect utterance. The methods
applied here include targeted sampling, contextual interpretation, quantitative
analysis, and descriptive methods. The objectives are as follows: 1) to investigate
how listener responses to indirect speech acts differ in terms of types and
functions they perform in conversation; 2) to highlight that listener responses to
indirect speech acts construct and coordinate different types of communication
in the speaker’s dialogues; 3) to specify the predominant type of indirect speech
act communication by analyzing listener responses in Patrick White’s novel,
“The Aunt’s Story.” This paper examines how listeners' responses to indirect
speech acts contribute to cooperative and uncooperative communication. The
study demonstrates that proper listener responses to indirect speech acts mostly
lead to successful types of indirect communication in Patrick White’s novel,
“The Aunt’s Story.”