THE SCENE OF LINGUISTIC ACTION AND ITS PERSPECTIVIZATION BY SPEAK, TALK, SAY AND TELL -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- INTRODUCTION -- NOTES -- FRAMING THE SCENE OF LINGUISTIC ACTION BY MEANS OF"SPEAK" -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The Place of Speak Among Some Verbs of Communication -- 1.1. Characteristics of Speak -- 1.2. Further Distinctions Within the Speaking Scene -- 1.3. The Participants in the Communication -- 1.4. The Information Transfer -- 1.4.1. The Transmission Object -- 1.4.2. The Transmission Devices -- 1.5. Situational Features -- 1.6. Summary -- 2. Syntactic-Semantic Analysis of Speak -- 2.1. The Three Speaks -- 2.1.1. Speak I -- 2.1.2 Speak II -- 2.1.3. Speak III -- 2.2. The Participants -- 2.2.1. The Sender -- 2.2.2. The Receiver -- 2.3. The Information Transfer -- 2.3.1. The Transmission Object -- 2.3.2. The Transmission Devices -- 2.3.3. Situational Features -- 2.4. Conclusion -- NOTES -- "TALK": LINGUISTIC ACTION PERSPECTIVIZED AS DISCOURSE -- 0. Introduction -- 1. General characterisation of talk as denoting discourse -- 1.1. Talk vs. say -- 1.2. Talk vs. tell -- 1.3. Talk vs. speak -- 2. Particular senses of talk in zero contexts -- 2.1. Extensive linguistic action -- 2.2. Various aspects of the linguistic action -- 2.3. Communicative linguistic action -- 3. Types of discourse participants in to- and with-phrases -- 3.1. The addressee is not the receiver or he is a doubtful receiver -- 3.2. The addressee is the receiver -- 3.2.1. The receiver as a mere receptor -- 3.2.2. The receiver as an implicit interactor -- 3.2.3. The receiver as an explicit interactor -- 4. Topic of the discourse and other types of topic -- 4.1. Talk about -- 4.2. Talk of and talk on -- 4.3. Talk + direct object -- 5. Adverbial constructions with talk denoting manner etc. -- 5.1. Talk like that/this.

5.2. Talk like NP (does) -- 5.3. Talk + way -- 5.4. Talk + -ly-adverb -- 5.5. Talk as if -- 5.6. Talk + in NP -- 6. Expression of literal and metaphorical space with talk -- 6.1. Talk + literal location -- 6.2. Talk + metaphorical location -- 6.3. Talk 4- locative expression as a causative verb denoting a result -- 6.4. Talk with the particles out and over -- 7. Conclusions -- NOTES -- "SAY": FOCUS ON THE MESSAGE -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Active subject -- 2. Direct object -- 3. The subject of passive sentences. -- 4. The referent of so, as and like. -- 5. Non-nuclear constituents. -- 6. Manner adverbials. -- 7. 'Absolute uses'. -- 8. The meaning (s) of say. -- 9. Postscript. -- NOTES -- ASPECTSOF THE LINGUISTIC ACTION SCENE WITH "TELL" -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The scene of the linguistic action verb tell -- 1.1. Subject -- 1.2. Object -- 1.3. Indirect Object -- 1.4. Prepositional phrases -- 1.5. Adverbial Adjuncts -- 2. Syntactico-semantic features of L.A. V. tell -- 2.1. With Addressee -- 2.1.1. INFORM-tell -- a. With Message -- b. INFORM-tell with Topic -- 2.1.2. NARRATE-tell -- 2.2. Without Addressee -- 2.2.1.MAKEOUT-tell -- 2.2.2. EXPRESS IN WORDS - tell -- 2.2.3. MAKE KNOWN-tell -- 3. Non-Linguistic Action Verb tell -- 3.1. COUNT-tell -- 3.2. EFFECT-tell -- 4. On the Fuzziness of the Frames and Other Residual Problems -- 5. Conclusion -- NOTES -- CONCLUSION -- [APPENDIX:SURVEY OF THE LINGUISTIC ACTION SCENE] -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.