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Illocutionary Acts and Transformational Grammar
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Speech Act Theory and the Theological Convictions of Preaching
… The chapter demonstrates preaching’s locutionary acts are Spirit-compelled and empowered utterances of theocentric content. Chapter 5 explains that preaching’s illocutionary acts are Spirit-filled actions of declaring Jesus and calling for repentance and faith. Chapter 6 shows that preaching …
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A new model of illocutionary force
… users with the tool to perform certain kinds of acts, called illocutionary acts or, later, speech acts . Speaking, Austin argued, was really a form of action; to say something is always just as much to do something. In the course of the lectures, Austin introduced some relatively well-known …
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Using task-based elicitation to measure effectiveness of counterfactual conditional instruction
… grammatical structures to perform certain illocutionary acts. To this end the researcher attempted to create tasks for which the production of the target grammatical structures would be “natural” (Loschcky & Bley-Vroman, 1993, p. 132). For the purpose of this study, “task naturalness” was …
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Performative power and affective resonance: toward an understanding of Old Testament blessings as speech acts with affective impact
… (OT), situating them as transformative speech acts with enduring significance for covenantal relationships and community identity. By integrating Speech Act Theory (SAT) and Affect Theory (AT), the study investigates the performative power of blessings, their intended perlocutionary effects, …
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Planning multisentential English text using communicative acts
… motivated an integrated theory of communicative acts which characterizes text at the level of rhetorical acts (e.g., describe, define, narrate), illocutionary acts (e.g., inform, request), and locutionary acts (e.g., ask, command). Taken as a whole, the identified communicative acts characterize …
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A dimensão dialógica dos atos ilocucionários na tessitura argumentativa dos gêneros acadêmicos: uma análise pragmático-discursiva de dissertações
Este trabalho tem como objeto de estudo a dialogicidade dos atos ilocucionários na construção argumentativa de gêneros acadêmicos, especificamente dissertações de mestrado produzidas no Brasil e em Portugal. Para isso, foram selecionadas dissertações de repositórios científicos desses países, cujas …
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'The reader and I are making faces': W. S. Graham's Management
… in his coterie. These are seen as essential illocutionary acts, acts of serious imaginative complexity, and acts that often go without saying. Chapter 2 moves to think about how Graham might say something back those who try and control him. He does this, in one way, by carefully …
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Contexto de aprendizagem da competência pragmática pelos falantes do português língua não materna em Valência, Espanha: contributos para uma análise das formas de tratamento e das estratégias de delicadeza em sequências de atos ilocutórios
Atendendo ao caráter não universal da delicadeza ou à sua flutuação cultural, o presente trabalho tem por objetivo investigar o desempenho de um grupo de estudantes específico de Português Língua Não Materna quanto às estratégias de delicadeza usadas em atos ilocutórios com uma dimensão diretiva, …