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Speech act theory, discourse structure and indirect speech [PDF]
, 1991 Speech Act Theory is concerned with the ways in which language can be used. It originated with Austin, but was developed by Searle. The theories of Austin and Searle are described and several problem areas are identified.
Smith, Peter Wilfred Hesling
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Modelling Speech Acts in Conversational Discourse [PDF]
, 2005 Computational pragmatics and dialogue analysis is currently a rapid growing area of research in computational linguistics. Over the past five years or so, initiatives in modelling pragmatic aspects of dialogue have led to considerably improved spoken ...
Schiffrin, Amanda
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Analysis of speech prosody using WaveNet embeddings : The Lombard effect [PDF]
, 2020 We present a novel methodology for speech prosody research based on the analysis of embeddings used to condition a convolutional WaveNet speech synthesis system.
Juraj Šimko +5 more
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Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia, 2022 The Speech Act of Referring. According to the speech-act theory whenever we utter a sentence, we perform two acts: the act of referring and that of predicating.
P. Alpár GERGELY
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Speech acts and rationality [PDF]
Proceedings of the 23rd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics -, 1985 This paper derives the basis of a theory of communication from a formal theory of rational interaction. The major result is a demonstration that illocutionary acts need not be primitive, and need not be recognized. As a test case. we derive Searle's conditions on requesting from principles of rationality coupled with a Gricean theory of imperatives ...
Philip R. Cohen, Hector J. Levesque
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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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Prosodic Prominence and Boundaries in Sequence-to-Sequence Speech Synthesis [PDF]
, 2020 Recent advances in deep learning methods have elevated synthetic speech quality to human level, and the field is now moving towards addressing prosodic variation in synthetic speech.Despite successes in this effort, the state-of-the-art systems fall ...
Juraj Šimko +7 more
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Field manual volume 14(pp. 33-35). Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics., 2008 This version is reprinted from the 2010 Field ...
Enfield, N. J., & Levinson, S. C.
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Fungsi Direksi Bahasa: Kajian Tindak Tutur dalam Film Shalah Al-Din Al-Ayyu?bi Al-Bathl Al-Usthurah
Diwan: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra Arab, 2019 This study discusses the directive speech acts in the animation movie ?al??udd?n: Al-Ba?hl Al-Us??rah. The object of this study is the types of directive speech acts. This study aimed at finding out the form of directive speech acts in episodes 12 and 13
Tuti Harianti +2 more
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Estetik, 2022 In an interaction, speakers and speech partners need good communication to express information that fits the context. Expressive speech acts are the way speakers express their intentions, thoughts, and feelings.
Milli Ana
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