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FUNCTIONAL AND SEMANTIC FEATURES OF APOLOGY SPEECH ACT (BASED ON THE ENGLISH FICTIONAL DISCOURSE)

Novìtnâ Osvìta, 2018
  The article presents the description of the functional and semantic features of apology speech act on the basis of the English fictional discourse.
Valeriia Smaglii, Svitlana Tykhonina, Galyna Galiant   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

What's in a Promise?

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many, perhaps even most, philosophers hold that, in order to promise someone something, the promisor must intend to communicate what they are promising. I argue against this claim, explain why it matters to the nature of promising, and sketch an alternative picture of normatively powerful speech acts.
Eliot Michaelson
wiley   +1 more source

Precarious agency: The role of uptake

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract How do we overcome the agency dilemma, that is, account for the fact that power relations heavily affect our agency without neglecting the many ways in which oppressed people act meaningfully? This article offers a solution by paying special attention to socially complex uptake in a framework of communities of practice. In order to explain the
Deborah Mühlebach
wiley   +1 more source

The illocutionary values of some literary interjections and their uses in telephone text messages [PDF]

Uirtus
Every utterance consists of accompanying an illocutionary act; speech act theorists will say that language is a form of intentional behavior. It is therefore useful for the speaker to reassure himself that the message he intends to convey is being ...
Amba Victorine Drabo
doaj   +1 more source

EU ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION: MITIGATION OF DIRECTIVE ILLOCUTIONARY FORCE

Філологічні студії, 2023
This article discusses the illocutionary underpinning of varying degrees of legal force of an international document, derived from the conflict between its genre and institutional nature as an act of hard law and the sphere of environmental relations ...
Valentyna Snitsar
doaj   +1 more source

Address Terms of Brotherhood in the Indian Online Gaming Community

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Indian gamers are part of the Indian society as well as a globalised gaming community. To navigate this cultural dissonance, they can use address terms to reflect and create their double or divided identities. This article investigates forms and functions of kinship terms that are connected to the concept of brother ‘male sibling’, for example,
Linnea Garlepow
wiley   +1 more source

Linguistic Justice in World Englishes: A View From Cultural Appropriation

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article highlights the need to better clarify what we understand by linguistic justice. Failure to do so poses the danger that the concept not only remains something we may clamour for but is also one that we are unable or unwilling to recognize should we ever encounter it.
Lionel Wee
wiley   +1 more source

An Exploring Obstacles and Teaching Strategies Used by Main Character in “Like Stars on Earth” Movie

SALEE
Speech act study is important for our daily because it gives a comprehension of what message is discovered in every utterance. Austin (1962) stated that in uttering a sentence, a speaker is generally involved in three levels of speech acts, they are ...
Mufida Nadira Yuni Pureka, Hasan Khalawi Hasan   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Illocutionary and Perlocutionary Acts on Youtube Videos Employed by Niana Guerrero

Journal of English Education and Teaching, 2020
This research is aimed at finding the illocutionary act types performed by Niana Guerrero in her YouTube videos and the perlocutionary effects performed by the hearers in Niana Guerrero’s YouTube videos.
Muthiara Chairani, Dedi Sofyan, Mei Hardiah   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Deterministic Theories

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 113, Issue 1, Page 134-152, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Determinism is (roughly) the thesis that the past determines the future. But efforts to define it precisely have exposed deep methodological disagreements. Standard possible‐worlds formulations of determinism presuppose an “agreement” relation between worlds, but this relation can be understood in multiple ways, none of which is particularly ...
Hans Halvorson, J. B. Manchak, James Owen Weatherall   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source