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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Indirect speech acts"”.
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They Blush Because They Understand: The Performative Power of Women's Humor and Embarrassment in Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma
… and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma. Using speech-act theory, I specifically examine Elizabeth's, Emma's, and Mary's utterances to demonstrate that in order for humorous utterances to be subversive, they must challenge societal or patriarchal constructs (religion, misogynist men, marriage, …
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Speech act theory, discourse structure and indirect speech
Speech Act Theory is concerned with the ways in which language can be used. It originated with Austin, but was developed by Searle. The theories of Austin and Searle are described and several problem areas are identified. If it is to be a viable theory of language usage, speech act theory must be …
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The role of comprehension in metaphor processing
… cues. Thus, this model can accommodate indirect speech acts, such as metaphors, as well as conventional language use. Explicit violations of the given- new contract and violations of Gricean maxims combine to create implicatures (either as a contextual setting or as an implicit setting) …
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'Coffee is not coffee at twelve o'clock at night': Exploring the motivations for speaking indirectly
… detailed theoretical and empirical discussion of indirect speech acts with a focus on off-record indirectness (ORI), a linguistic strategy through which a speaker deliberately conveys to the addressee two related meanings – a literal, direct meaning and an indirect meaning. Due to the pragmatic …
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Contributos da análise linguística das histórias de vida em situação de entrevista para o processo de ensino e aprendizagem do português língua não materna : aspetos do desenvolvimento da competência pragmática em contextos orais interativos
A presente investigação tem como enquadramento teórico a Pragmática Linguística ou o estudo da Língua em Uso, isto é, o estudo da linguagem em funcionamento que considera os usos da linguagem em contexto. Tendo por base a constituição e delimitação de um corpus oral de entrevistas a emigrantes …