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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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The speech act of apology : a linguistic exploration of politeness orientation in British and Jordanian culture [PDF]

, 2007
Through an investigation of the realisation patterns of apologies in British English and Jordanian Arabic, this study presents an account of politeness phenomena in Jordanian culture as compared to British culture.
Al-Adaileh, Bilal Abdal Majeed
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The Destructive Power of the Tongue as a Verbum Inefficax: A Canonical-Literary Reading of James 3:1–12 through the Lens of Speech-Act Theory

Conspectus, 2023
The major premise of this journal article is that human speech is either categorized as a verbum efficax or a verbum inefficax. On the one hand, as argued in section one, human speech as a verbum efficax is efficacious.
Dan Lioy
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An Analysis of Shath by ‘Speech Act Theory’ [PDF]

ادبیات عرفانی, 2012
The application of linguistic theories to the analysis of literary texts is fruitful to the achievement of new insights and aspects in both areas of study. Therefore, in this inquiry the ‘Speech Act Theory’ is applied to the study of a well-known Persian
Mahdi Zarghani, Elham Akhlaghi
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Speech Acts and Relevance: in Search of a Dialogue

Research in Language, 2023
This paper comments on the notion of the speech act in the tradition of J.L. Austin (1962/1975) in an attempt to assess its relevance (sic!) in a relevance-theory-based research.
Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka
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Linguacultural aspects of the value and semantic attitude to the speech act of promise in Russian

Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2023
The study develops the speech acts theory in terms of the “condition of sincerity” (Searle 1965). It aims to identify the attitude to the speech act of promise in the Russian communicative culture.
Marina V. Zagidullina, Asghar Ghodrati, Maryam Shafaghi   +2 more
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Emotionsausdruck: Kontextspezifische und situativbedingte Zuschreibungen von negativen Eigenschaften in einigen Zeitungsartikeln der ADZ für Rumänien: Dragnea & Co und das Prekariat [PDF]

Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław, 2021
In the media public discourse linguistic structures are chosen and used in order to express one’s own attitude towards events in society and to highlight certain emotions such as indignation, anger and dissatisfaction.
Adriana Dănilă
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Speech act theory and New Testament exegesis

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 1991
Speech act theory offers New Testament exegesis some additional ways and means of approaching the text of the New Testament. This, the second in a series of two articles that make a plea for the continued utilisation and application of this theory to the
J. Botha
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THE SPEECH ACT OF REFERRING

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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