How long does it take to read English Speech Act Verbs?
A Semantic Dictionary
English Speech Act Verbs by Anna Wierzbicka takes about 7 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 17 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1987. 397 pages, about 109,175 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 8 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 33 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Verb, Semantics, Speech acts (Linguistics)