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Showing 1 to 20 of 100 for “"speech acts"”.
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Modelling Speech Acts in Conversational Discourse
… a critical survey of the various approaches to speech act modelling, detailing what I think are the strengths and weaknesses in the current theories. One very promising approach is that of using speech act analysis as a means of interpreting a speaker's intentions in producing an utterance. This …
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Alterpieces: Artworks as Shifting Speech Acts
… language. My thesis explores how the notion of a speech act – an utterance with a performative aspect – can illuminate art’s power to ‘speak’. In recent years, philosophers of art have explored speech act theory in relation to literary art, though barely at all in relation to visual art. Given the …
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"Beowulf maþelode....": text linguistics and speech acts
… is devoted to such a study of the first person speeches of Beowulf.</p> <p>In this study many interesting and important questions that could be asked about these speeches will not be treated. Such matters, for example, as their allegorical and symbolic import do not receive emphasis here. What …
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Japanese-English Bilinguals’ Competence Of Speech Acts In Politeness
The perceptions and norms of speech acts vary depending on the actor’s culture and language (Blum-Kulka, House, & Kasper, 1989; Rinnert & Kobayashi, 1999). Politeness also has diverse benchmarks depending on culture and language, as noted by Ide et al. (1992) who argue that the concept of …
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A Pragmatic Study on Speech Acts in Chinese Invitational Conversations
The results showed that despite its prevalence, the tripartite structure in accordance with an invite/refuse-invite/refuse-invite/accept schema documented in earlier studies in fact lacked completeness and thoroughness in shaping Chinese pragmatics. There also existed two additional interactive …
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A cross-linguistic study of requestive speech acts in email communication
… varied, were designed to elicit the speech act of requesting. In addition to the first instrument, a metapragmatic questionnaire was also constructed to assess the cross-cultural suitability of the situations, and to further examine the participants' awareness of the contextual …
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An Exploratory Investigation of Teachers' Speech Acts During a Reading Lesson
… of this study was to investigate teachers' speech acts during a reading lesson and to determine whether differences between instructional/task-related and managerial/discipline speech acts for the high and the low reading groups do exist. The study was conducted in four elementary schools in …
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Subversive speech acts? An evaluation of an imperial-critical reading of Ephesians
… then employs an eclectic hermeneutic: drawing on speech-act theory, implied/empirical distinctions, and a narrative hermeneutic to construct and evaluate an anti-imperial reading of Ephesians. In doing so, the empirical life-setting of Ephesians is re-examined. Previously underexplored elements of …
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The Nonprofit Mission Statement as Genre: Speech Acts, Social Facts, and Ecologies
… form of GEM that more purposefully includes speech genres to map relationships; in this case study, the speech genres revealed how the mission statement is mediated through genres and activities. Further, observations and interviews revealed ideological conflicts of the organization's key …
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Speech acts and their rhetorical purposes in the Namibian parliamentary discourse, 2015-2016
… Analysis research design by identifying speech acts based on Searle’s five classifications of speech acts and explaining how they were persuasive. Three theoretical frameworks informed this study. Austin’s speech act theory contributes to the speech acts, especially performative acts …
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Variation in the performance of speech acts in Peninsular Spanish: apologies and requests
… study examines variations in the performance of speech acts and additional discourse features in situational speech patterns of Peninsular Spanish. Based on studies by Blum-Kulka, et al. (1989), nine situations were created, varying from less severe to more severe, to elicit natural responses for …
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Realizations of Two Speech Acts of Heritage Learners of Korean: Request and Apology Strategies
… was to describe and analyze realizations of two speech acts, request and apology, of heritage learners of Korean in comparison with those of Korean native speakers. Twenty native speakers of Korean and twenty Korean- Americans who speak Korean as a second language participated in the study. They …
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Performative power and affective resonance: toward an understanding of Old Testament blessings as speech acts with affective impact
… Testament (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 …
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Here tunggë made here slayn: Dangerous speech acts in four exempla from Robert Mannyng of Brunne’s <i>Handlyng Synne</i>
… Douglas, as well as others, and conclude that speech acts, whether deviant or sanctioned, make identity at any level (de)constructable. I hope to show that while this is particularly noticeable against the historical and ideological backdrop of Mannyng’s day, linguistic differance always opens …
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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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Not Function but Function Conquered: Against a Functionalist Theory of Directives
… and inviting are examples of directive speech acts. Philosophers have offered different accounts of what it is to perform a directive, which they have developed using different theoretical resources. Attitudinal theories of speech acts try to explain what it is to perform a directive in …
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The coherent pattern of leadership reflected in the unique attributes of the shepherd / flock motif within the Miletus Speech (Acts 20:17–38), 1 Peter 5:1–11, and John 21:15–19
… aim of this study is to discern how the Miletus Speech (Acts 20:17–38), Peter’s exhortation to the elders (1 Peter 5:1–11) and Jesus’ post-resurrection discourse with Peter (John 21:15–19) utilized the shepherd / flock motif to arrive at their common portrait of early church leadership. A …
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Choosing a college and major : the sociopragmatics of advice-requesting and giving in Jinyun Wu Chinese
… attention has been paid to the performance of speech acts in varied languages. However, the speech event of advising has received less attention than speech acts such as complimenting and requesting, and there have been comparatively few studies focusing on non-Indo-European languages. Based on …
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