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“Frank confession” in institutional and everyday communication: speech genre or speech action [PDF]
The article views the specific communicative situation “frank confession” in institutional (legal) and personality-oriented (everyday) discourses. The author attempts to determine its genre affiliation in the discourses.
Panchenko, Nadezhda Nikolayevna
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A Look into the Politic Apologies in Iran [PDF]
: Apologizing is an ethical speech act that is addressed to the offended to alleviate him /her by the offender who has committed an offence. Blum-Kulka and Olshtain (1984) specified illocutionary force indicating device (IFID), taking responsibility ...
Hossein Rahmani
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In a controlled laboratory experiment we investigate whether time pressure influences voting decisions, and in particular the degree of strategic (insincere) voting.
Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Michele Garagnani
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The article presents a proposal for a dictionary entry “Authenticity”. The Author defines the term in the context of autobiographical practices by indicating three principal semantical areas it belongs to, including their evolution as well as the ...
ARTUR HELLICH
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Explaining the Components of Sincerity with Emphasis on the Explanation of Nahjah al-Balaghah by Allama Mohammad Taqi Jafari [PDF]
One of the most important conditions stated in religious texts for the acceptance of deeds and acts of worship is the issue of sincerity, so that acts of worship without sincerity remove man from the position of Lordship.
Ali Bahramei Farsani +2 more
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This paper provides an account of anonymous speech treated as anonymized speech. It is argued that anonymous speech acts are best defined by reference to intentional acts of blocking a speaker's identification as opposed to the various epistemic effects that imperfectly correlate with these actions.
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Montaigne rarely repented and he viewed confession—both juridical and ecclesiastical—with skepticism. Confession, Montaigne believed, forced a mode of self-representation onto the speaker that was inevitably distorting.
John Jeffries Martin
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Post-Postmodernism, the “Affective Turn”, and Inauthenticity
This article considers Rachel Greenwald Smith’s concept of the “Affective Turn” in contemporary fiction by looking at a constellation of novels published near the turn of the twenty-first century: David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest (1996), Jonathan ...
George Kowalik
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Emmanuel Carrère distances himself from what he calls “intelligence” whose pragmatics and ethics recalls irony’s ones. In Yoga, his conception on writing, mixing aesthetics with ethics, is based on an ideal of authenticity and sincerity. Even if Emmanuel
Mathieu Delaveau
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AbstractThis paper is concerned with situations in which a speaker issues many speech acts at the same time. A common example is the publication of a large text such as a book containing many distinct assertions. It is argued that these cases present a challenge for speech act theory related to how we are to understand sincerity.
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