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Evidentiality, Modality, and Speech Acts

, 2021
Evidential constructions have two main semantic effects: They contribute information about an individual's source of evidence, and they potentially modify the force of a sentence.
Sarah E. Murray
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RECOGNISING SPEECH ACTS

Per Linguam : A Journal of Language Learning, 2012
Speech Act Theory (SAT), a theory in pragmatics, is an attempt to describe what happens during linguistic interactions. Inherent within SAT is the idea that language forms and intentions are relatively formulaic and that there is a direct correspondence ...
Phyllis Kaburise
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Defining 'Speech': Subtraction, Addition, and Division [PDF]

, 2016
In free speech theory ‘speech’ has to be defined as a special term of art. I argue that much free speech discourse comes with a tacit commitment to a ‘Subtractive Approach’ to defining speech.
Simpson, Robert Mark
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Teaching Speech Acts [PDF]

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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Communicative Acts Performance of an Indonesian Child [PDF]

, 2006
This study attempts to describe the communicative acts of an Indonesian child by using the coding system of speech acts proposed by Ninio and Snow. The data are the subject\u27s spoken utterances which were recorded.
Palupi, M. G. (M)
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The Discourse of Friday Sermon in Surakarta a Socio-pragmatic Study [PDF]

, 2012
This research aims to explain the Friday sermon by analysing the structure of its discourse, the selection and composition of its topics, the form and functions of its codes and code switching, the form of its speech acts, and the characteristics of its ...
Saddhono, K. (Kundharu)
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Speech Acts [PDF]

, 2016
Abstract The essential insight of speech act theory was that when we use language, we perform actions—in a more modern parlance, core language use in interaction is a form of joint action. Over the last thirty years, speech acts have been relatively neglected in linguistic pragmatics, although important work has been done especially in ...
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SPEECH ACTS IN ENGLISH LEARNING CLASSROOMS (Case Study at The Islamic College Jakarta)

Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching, 2021
This study aims to analyze and describe (1) the form of speech acts in interactions in the English learning class at Islamic College Jakarta and (2) the types of speech acts in the interaction in the English class at Islamic College Jakarta.
Fitriyah Fitriyah
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The metaphorical construction of complex domains:the case of speech activity in English. [PDF]

, 2005
In this article I provide an account of the way in which the domain of spoken communication is metaphorically constructed in English, on the basis of the analysis of over 450 metaphorical references to speech activity in a corpus of contemporary written ...
Semino, Elena
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Lying, speech acts, and commitment

Synthese, 2020
Not every speech act can be a lie. A good definition of lying should be able to draw the right distinctions between speech acts (like promises, assertions, and oaths) that can be lies and speech acts (like commands, suggestions, or assumptions) that ...
Neri Marsili
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