Illocutionary Acts in Recorded Presentations of English Education Master's Program Students
This study aims to identify the illocutionary acts used by English Education Master’s Program students and the underlying reasons for them to use the acts in their recorded presentations.
Monika Dewanty, Barli Bram
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A Speech Acts Analysis of English COVID-19 News Headlines
News headlines are key elements in spreading news. They are unique texts written in a special language which enables readers understand the overall nature and importance of the topic.
Mothana N. H. Almarsomi +1 more
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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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Stereotyping Scotland: Groundskeeper Willie’s illocutionary acts in The Simpsons
This article explores the Scottish character of Groundskeeper Willie in the American animated sitcom The Simpsons with a pragmatic and social-psychological approach.
Daniela Francesca Virdis
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Rejecting and challenging illocutionary acts [PDF]
Abstract This paper examines aspects of strategic interaction and the construction of the social actor in a neo-Austinian framework of illocutionary acts. The basic premise of the neo-Austinian framework is conventionality, according to which illocutionary acts depend on social agreement.
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Looking at Us Through Their Eyes. The Analytical Process from Ethnographic Perspectives1
Abstract This article looks at the analytical situation through the Others’ eyes—through examples from contemporary ethnographies of foreign cultures. It discusses the following issues: a) The analogy between the ontological worlds of the dead, ghosts, animals and dreams in “primitive populations” and the analytical psychological descriptions of the ...
Stefano Carta
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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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Illocutionary Acts in Online Airline Advertising Slogans
This research attempts to examine the illocutionary acts used in airline slogans taken from online airlines advertisements and investigate the most dominant illocutionary acts used in the slogans.
Arrosid, Isnain, Munandar, Aris
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Conditional advice and inducements : are readers sensitive to implicit speech acts during comprehension? [PDF]
Conditionals can implicitly convey a range of speech acts including promises, tips, threats and warnings. These are traditionally divided into the broader categories of advice (tips and warnings) and inducements (promises and threats). One consequence of
Stewart, Andrew J.; id_orcid +10 more
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TINDAK TUTUR ILOKUSI DALAM NEGOSIASI UPACARA MEMINANG (KAJIAN ETNOGRAFI KOMUNIKASI)
The study proposes marriage ceremony backdrop for their negotiations with language Minangkabau. Negotiations in this study aims to explain the culture of oral tradition in particular illocutionary speech act.
Redo Andi Marta
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