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Dominik Jan Schoppa

• The present dissertation explores the ordinary language use of the English meta-illocutionary lexicon across three regions, namely Great Britain, Hong Kong, and Kenya. Considering ordinary language users' explicit and reflexive references to three directive illocutions (i.e., requesting, commanding, begging) and three expressive illocutions (i.e., thanking, apologizing, congratulating), this study's foci of analysis are (i) normalized frequencies of use, (ii) word class shares, (iii) use type distributions, (iv) entextualization patterns, and (v) realization types of the performative use type. Based on blogging data from the Corpus of Global Web-based English (GloWbE), this study's empirical results are discussed against the backgrounds of (i) cognitive salience, (ii) degrees of institutionalization, (iii) conceputal structures, (iv) contextual situatedness, and (v) explicit realization patterns associated with the illocutions and illocutionary types in question. Contributing to theThe present dissertation explores the ordinary language use of the English meta-illocutionary lexicon across three regions, namely Great Britain, Hong Kong, and Kenya. Considering ordinary language users' explicit and reflexive references to three directive illocutions (i.e., requesting, commanding, begging) and three expressive illocutions (i.e., thanking, apologizing, congratulating), this study's foci of analysis are (i) normalized frequencies of use, (ii) word class shares, (iii) use type distributions, (iv) entextualization patterns, and (v) realization types of the performative use type. Based on blogging data from the Corpus of Global Web-based English (GloWbE), this study's empirical results are discussed against the backgrounds of (i) cognitive salience, (ii) degrees of institutionalization, (iii) conceputal structures, (iv) contextual situatedness, and (v) explicit realization patterns associated with the illocutions and illocutionary types in question. Contributing to the research areas of metapragmatics, corpus pragmatics, variational pragmatics, and discourse analysis, this dissertation provides innovative insights into first-order conceptualizations of illocutions and illocutionary types across selected English-speaking countries and regions.…