SPEECH ACT TAXONOMY AS A TOOL FOR ETHNOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION: An Analysis Based on Videotapes of Continuous Behavior in two New York Households -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- LIST OF TABLES -- Acknowledgements -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1. The background of the research -- 1.2. An etic approach to speech acts -- 1.3. Goals and strategy of the study -- 2. THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF SPEAKING AND THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF DOING -- 2.1. What emic definitions of speech acts can't do -- 2.2. The limits of emically defined speech events and situations -- 2.3. Speech acts and communicative intentions -- 2.4. The taxonomy of speech acts -- 3. CLASSIFYING SPEECH ACTS -- 3.1. Intended effects -- 3.2. Communicative intentions before speech -- 3.3. Comprehending speech acts in context -- 3.4. Language devices expressing illocutionary acts -- 4. THE STRUCTURE OF SPEECH ACTS -- 4.1. Address -- 4.2. Motivators -- 4.3. The analysis of modality and modulation -- 4.4. Procedures -- 5. BEHAVIORAL COUNTS OF SPEECH ACTS -- 5.1. Defining measures based on the taxonomy of speech acts -- 5.2 Coding Directive and Commissive measures -- 5.3. The other speech act measures -- 5.4. Conclusions -- FOOTNOTES -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX A -- APPENDIX B.