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This paper deals with promoting knowledge of pragmatics which focuses on the knowledge of the illocutionary acts and conversational implicatures to students of English education and English literature study program.
- Margana
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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This research reports on an assertive illocutionary act performed by khatib ‘Islam preacher’ in Friday sermons in Baiturohim Mosque of Surakarta. This qualitative research aims to elucidate utterance's form, function, and meaning in the assertive ...
Sri Kuncoro DibyoSarjono Maskuri Maksum
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Abstract Much of the current popular and academic literature on the provision of green spaces is dominated by the assumption that ‘nature’ is an unalloyed positive, and that socioeconomic and racial exclusion from access to green spaces is a problem of unequal spatial distribution rather than of the form and content of particular urban designs.
Kiera Chapman
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UTTERANCES IN THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW MOVIE AN ANALYSIS OF ILLOCUTIONARY ACT
This research aims to identify the illocutionary act performed by the main character in The Woman in the Window movie. This movie tells the story of Anna Fox, the main character with agoraphobia.
hilma safitri, Mia Perlina, Romano
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A qualitative assessment of quantitative easing sentiment
Abstract This mixed‐method study undertakes a comprehensive inquiry of the public discourse on social media surrounding quantitative easing (QE) across the US, the UK, and the European Union. Utilizing a unique tweet dataset, we reveal the sentiment polarity toward QE policy to be strongly negative, at 71.27%, with positive sentiment a mere 4.25 ...
Niamh Wylie, Martha O’Hagan‐Luff
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Consigning Injustice to History with Political Apologies
ABSTRACT Failures to remember the past properly can constitute a range of different wrongs. In this article, we identify a novel kind of wrong that often occurs through political apologies: consigning an injustice to history. Consigning acknowledges that a historical injustice took place but denies that it has any ongoing relevance for the present ...
Alfred Archer, Benjamin Matheson
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This study revealed politeness through illocutionary acts theory in a corona virus press briefing held by WHO (World Health Organization). Taken from a video press briefing entitled “Live from WHO Headquarters - COVID-19 daily press briefing on March ...
Farah Larissa Aryanti +1 more
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ABSTRACT Conversations can belong to different types, or genres. We consider four dimensions of variation as case studies: Some conversations are about sharing information, others about making decisions; some are about making firm commitments, others about brainstorming options; some are about sticking to the facts, others involve make‐believe; some ...
Elmar Unnsteinsson, Daniel W. Harris
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Directive Illocutionary Act Used by The Main Character in “The End of the F***ing World”
The purpose of this study is to analyzedirective illocutionary act, spesifically about how action can occur only with the use of language spoken by the main characters in The End of the F***ing World series.Theory by Halliday and Hasan (1985) was ...
I Dewa Gede Bagus Prabawa +1 more
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