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Referring as a pragmatic act [PDF]
Journal of Pragmatics, 2010 Descriptions of pragmemes and pragmatic acts in Mey (2001) and Capone (2005) seem to reduce pragmemes to little more than illocutionary or perlocutionary types. Emphasizing the importance of context to the proper delivery and interpreting of speech acts scarcely justifies introducing new terminology: the importance of common ground (discourse context ...
Keith Allan
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“I Hear the Cry, but I Do Not See the Tears”: Indirectness in Bribery Negotiations
African Journal of Inter-Multidisciplinary StudiesThere is a relationship between crime and language, particularly crimes such as bribery, which are perpetuated through the use of language. These language-based crimes are often articulated indirectly to afford the interlocutor’s denial should such a ...
Mampoi Irene Mabena +1 more
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The Effect of Explicit Pragmatic Instruction on EFL Students' Production of Speech Acts: Pragmalinguistic vs. Sociopragmatic Errors in Focus [PDF]
Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning, 2023 L2 learners' pragmatic development could be manifested by their proper speech act production. Due to the existing differences among languages, errors in speech act realization are inevitable.
Alyaa Alkawaz +3 more
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SPEECH ACT IN BARACK OBAMA’S SPEECH
JALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literacy), 2022 The purpose of this study is to analyze Barack Obama's usage of speech acts in speech "A More Perfect Union”. The method used in this research is qualitative research. The data were collected and analyzed by collecting and classifying the utterances that
Peby Utami +3 more
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Analysis of Speech Acts in COVID-19-Related Facebook Comments
Proceedings, 2022 As one of the most popular social networking sites, people use Facebook to get the latest information related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Driven by this trend and the motivation to address the gap in studies on speech acts on Facebook, we sought to examine
Nor Syamimi Iliani Che Hassan +1 more
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Illocutionary act between barista and customers in Starbucks coffee shop at Changi airport
Journal of Research on English and Language Learning, 2020 This research primarily aimed to analyse the types of the illocutionary act proposed by Searle (1979), secondly to find the dominant type produced by both sides, between barista and customers' utterances at Starbucks coffeeshop Changi Airport.
Isbandi Isbandi, Nurma Dhona Handayani
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EFFECT OF MAKASSAR CULTURE ON THE AGE GROUP TO RESPONSE COMPLIMENT IN ENGLISH
Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching, 2022 Exploring the cultural pragmatic speech of the Makassar people of various ages and genders is a popular trend in current pragmatic research. However, most of the previous studies have only obtained data from speakers of different genders and ages and ...
Kamsinah Kamsinah +3 more
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DOMINANT SPEECH ACT TYPE IN DAILY CONVERSATION: A PRAGMATIC STUDY
Lire Journal, 2022 Speech act is an act of communication that must be understood by the speaker and listener. Misunderstanding of speech act in conversation or dialogue can cause the misleading in the conversation.
Syafryadin Syafryadin +2 more
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Multiple Intelligences as Predictors of Foreign Language Pragmatic Knowledge: The Case of Five Frequent English Speech Acts [PDF]
Teaching English Language, 2020 Because of the important role of multiple intelligences (MIs) in learning a second/foreign langue (L2) as supported by the existing second language acquisition (SLA) literature, some pragmatic scholars have asked for studying their contribution to ...
Abdullah Sarani, Ali Malmir
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Pragmatique cognitive, argumentation et perlocution
Argumentation et Analyse du Discours, 2020 This paper discusses the links between pragmatics (defined as the study of meaning in context) and the study of argumentation in order to ground a pragmatic approach to perlocution. Traditionally devoted to the study of illocutionary meaning, in the vein
Steve Oswald
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