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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"speech-act"”.
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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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Speech Act Theory and the Theological Convictions of Preaching
… preaching event, using the linguistic theory, Speech Act Theory (SAT). Chapter 1 introduces and supports preaching as a priority of Christianity by providing theological convictions about the theological conversation between the preacher, Holy Spirit, the Bible, and the hearer. The chapter …
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Plato's Crito: A speech act and structuralist analysis for performance
1 PDF file (v, 181 pages)
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The Pragmatics of Apology Speech Act Behaviour in Iraqi Arabic and English
This study is concerned with examining the speech act of apology by Iraqi Arabic native speakers (IANs) and Iraqi English foreign language learners (EFLL). It aims at examining the strategies and functions of apologies produced by two groups of participating speakers as well as their perceptions of …
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The Social Ontology of Psychiatry: Psychiatric Diagnosis as an Ontogenetic, Interpellative Speech Act
… can be modeled as an ontogenetic, interpellative speech act. A speech act is an utterance or sign that constitutes an action through its performance, called an illocution. In psychiatric diagnosis, this illocution is ontogenesis, or the instantiation of an individual as a member of a social kind. …
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The story in conversation: towards an integration of speech act theory and conversational analysis.
… s~ markedly different from the features that characterise a narrative text. An attempt is made in the thesis to locate the study of stories in an area of research that allows analysis in terms )of the interaction of story-teller and addressees in a conversation. Within this area of linguistic …
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How to Ask for a Favor: An Exploration of Speech Act Pragmatics in Heritage Russian
… is not fully acquired. The performance of speech acts in HLs is yet to be understood, and this dissertation is a first step in this direction. The study investigates the pragmatic competence of adult Heritage Russian (HR) speakers dominant in American English by focusing on their ability to …
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Apologizing and complaining in Ciluba, French, and English : speech act performance by trilingual speakers in Zaire
… a multilingual situation where there is interaction among three different languages spoken by one person. Neither have they dealt with an African language as the first language.The present study was designed to discover the norms of the three languages under investigation and to see how people …
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The speech act of apology : a linguistic exploration of politeness orientation in British and Jordanian culture
… it was decided to linguistically examine the act of apologising within the theoretical framework of Brown & Levinson's (1978,1987) model of politeness in which a distinction is made between two main constituents of face: negative face and positive face. The adoption of Brown & Levinson's …
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A cross-cultural comparison of the requestive speech act realization patterns in Persian and American English
… was to: (a) expand the scope of cross-cultural speech act studies to include a non-western language, (b) to examine similarities and differences in the realization patterns of the speech act of requesting between Persian speakers and American speakers of English, (c) to examine effects related …
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A contrastive cross-cultural study of the speech act of correction in Egyptian Arabic and American English
1 PDF file (xi, 141 pages)
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Arguing in English as a Second Language: A Study of the Speech Act Performance of Arabic Speakers
… study examines the ways in which sociocultural factors affect second language performance. It reveals various difficulties second language learners might have in acquiring complex speech act forms and describes linguistic and social interference in learning a second language.
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Method and scope in cross-cultural speech act research: A contrastive study of requests in Japanese and English
The Cross Cultural Speech Act Realization Project (CCSARP), the most ambitious speech act research to date, focused on western languages and cultures and employed questionnaires in data collection. The results showed conventionally indirect requests to be the most favored for all languages studied, …
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The Speech Act of Complaint in English and in Russian and its Emergence in the Pragmatic Competence of Adult American Learners of Russian
… compares the performance and perception of the speech act of complaints by American native speakers of English (ASs), Russian native speakers (RSs), and American learners of Russian as a second language (L2).The primary goals of this study are to establish a baseline ofperforming the speech act …
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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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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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Prepositional Phrase Attachment Ambiguities in Declarative and Interrogative Contexts: Oral Reading Data
… items were created in a 2 x 2 design with one factor being Speech Act (declarative vs. interrogative) and the other being PP2 Status, i.e., PP2 could only be an argument of the verb iv (Arg), as above, or else PP2 could be interpreted as a modifier (Mod) of the NP within the preceding PP, as in …
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Christ, the Gospel, and the Church: The Church's Participation in the Salvation of Its Members
… dissertation proposes that the church plays an active role in the salvation of its members through the proclamation of the gospel. Chapter 1 introduces the topic of the dissertation by positioning it within its current academic and nonacademic context. It then details the thesis and methodology …
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An analysis of the persuasion strategies used by Japanese and American business persons
… data collected were analyzed by the framework of speech act categories, most of which were taken from Edmondson’s categories (1981). Second, detailed persuasion strategies in performing various acts were selected and categorized on the basis of two objectives to be accomplished. These two …
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Modelling Speech Acts in Conversational Discourse
… language dialogue systems � so much so in fact that constrained human-computer interaction no longer seems out of the question. One of the main drawbacks to such systems however is highlighted by the word "constrained". Human communication is seldom confined to answering questions or solving …
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