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Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 2007 In this paper I argue that pragmatic ability must become part of what we teach in the classroom if we are to realize the goals of communicative competence for our students.
Teaching Speech Acts
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Studia Semiotyczne, 2022 DOI: https://doi.org/10.26333/sts.xxxvi2.02 This paper offers a systematic classification and characterization of speech acts and their norms. Recently, the normative approach has been applied to various speech acts, most notably to constatives. I start by showing how the work on the norms of assertion has influenced various approaches to the norms of ...
Gaszczyk, Grzegorz +1 more
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Speech acts as announcements [PDF]
, 2009 Our aim is to use the logic of public announcements and more generally dynamic epistemic logics as a logic of speech acts. To that end we start from a simple multimodal logic of beliefs and goals (without common belief), and add public announcements. We suppose that announcements do not modify goals.
Guiraud, Nadine +2 more
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Studia Semiotyczne, 2023 DOI: https://doi.org/10.26333/sts.xxxvi2.02 This paper offers a systematic classification and characterization of speech acts and their norms. Recently, the normative approach has been applied to various speech acts, most notably to constatives.
Grzegorz Gaszczyk
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Large-scale study of speech acts' development using automatic labelling [PDF]
, 2021 International audienceStudies of children's language use in the wild (e.g., in the context of child-caregiver social interaction) have been slowed by the time-and resource-consuming task of hand annotating utterances for communicative intents/speech acts.
Maes, Juliette +9 more
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Modeling speech act development in early childhood: the role of frequency and linguistic cues [PDF]
, 2021 International audienceA crucial step in children's language development is the mastery of how to use language in context. This involves the ability to recognize and use major categories of speech acts (e.g., learning that a "question" is different from a
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Speech Acts in English: from Research to Instruction and Textbook Development [PDF]
, 2021 Speech acts, those actions carried out mainly by means of language, are used in English in a range of complex ways. However, they have rarely been covered in English as a foreign language (EFL) materials and textbooks.
Pérez Hernández, Lorena [0000-0001-6500-0157]
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Large-scale study of speech acts' development in early childhood
, 2021 Studies of children's language use in the wild (e.g., in the context of child-caregiver social interaction) have been slowed by the time- and resource- consuming task of hand annotating utterances for communicative intents/speech acts.
Mitja Nikolaus +4 more
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Key Stage 3 ELT Coursebook Speech Acts
, 2023 The area of pragmatics is an important aspect of the languages that we use in our everyday lives. Speech acts are central to this, and they are often initially presented to language learners in the coursebooks (or textbooks) they read and use during ...
Liam D. Wilson
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Tweet Acts and Quote-Tweetable Acts [PDF]
, 2023 Online communication can often seem different to offline talk. Structural features of social media sites can shape the things we do with words. In this paper, I argue that the practice of 'quote-tweeting' can cause a single utterance that originally ...
Cousens, Chris
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