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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"indirect speech"”.
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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 German reportative subjunctive: a relevance-theoretic analysis
… subjunctive, which occurs exclusively in indirect-speech contexts. It is argued that the German reportative subjunctive encodes procedural meaning, whose purpose is to reduce the amount of processing effort that a hearer must expend in inferring that an instance of indirect speech is to be …
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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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A LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF CAUSALITY IN HATE SPEECH
… responsibility and blame when expressing hate speech. The research questions addressed are as follows: (1) How is responsibility being assigned? (2) Are different types of causal constructions and strategies used similarly in hate speech? (3) Do the strategies vary based on language or are they …
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A contrastive analysis of the English and Nepali past tenses and an error analysis of Nepali learners' use of the English past tenses
… reference point between the event time and the speech time. Although used in similar as well as different contexts, the past perfect in both languages is found to express background information. In the analysis of the Nepali past tenses, one of the major arguments is that the traditionally …
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Sir Thomas More and the art of dialogue
… "art of dialogue" in the passages of direct and indirect speech in Richard III, and in the dialogues between Hythloday and Persona More in Book I of Utopia, between Chancellor More and the Messenger in the Dialogue Concerning Heresies, and between Vincent and Anthony in the Dialogue of Comfort. …
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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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The Voice of Evil: A Narratological Study of Demonic Characters in Old English Literature
… her work to represent these characters and their speech. This study is a narratological analysis of seven Old English poems (Genesis A, Genesis B, Elene, Juliana, Christ and Satan, Guthlac A, and Andreas) that contain the Devil or demons as speaking characters. The primary focus is on how the …
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The relation between form and ideology in Doris Lessing's Children of violence
… narrative focalisation from omniscience to free-indirect speech. The central change in the series is in Lessing's depiction of her protagonist's relationship to Africa. Before Lessing leaves the Party, her protagonist desires a construction of herself as African, after Lessing leaves, her …
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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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A cross-cultural study on complaint letters : Australian and Korean
… in vague and emotive terms. Secondly, the indirect speech of Korean writers will be analysed through the adaptation of Kim and Wilson’s study of request categories (1994). The results imply that Koreans use hint strategies as much as they use direct request, while Australians tend to use a …
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Identity construction in nurse practitioner-patient interactions
… medical advice through the use of hedging and indirect speech. Employing these linguistic features allows the NPs to highlight and address the interpersonal goals of the medical visit, enabling them to create positive patient-provider relationships. Similarly, NPs balance the focus on the …
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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 …