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Consigning Injustice to History with Political Apologies

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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

Revealing Politeness Through Illocutionary Act Approach in World Health Organization Staff’s Responses at Corona Virus Press Briefing

Ideas, 2021
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, Lina Purwaning Hartanti   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Permissible presupposition

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
When is it proper or acceptable for a speaker to presuppose a proposition in the course of performing a speech act? Taking Stalnaker's common ground model as my background, I argue that this is best framed as a matter of the conversational permissibility of the speaker's presupposition, and that we should not construe this permissibility in terms of ...
Sanford C. Goldberg
wiley   +1 more source

Directive Illocutionary Act Used by The Main Character in “The End of the F***ing World”

Humanis
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, I Putu Andri Permana   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Genre and Conversation

Noûs, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +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

The Relational Risks of Generative Artificial Intelligence

Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The increasingly widespread use of generative artificial intelligence has begun to reshape the landscape of interpersonal communication. It is no longer unusual, for example, for co‐workers to reply to each other's emails, or even romantic partners and family members to respond to each other with AI‐generated messages.
Désirée Lim
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

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