A nonmonotonic logic for reasoning about speech acts and belief revision

Drawing on speech acts theory, this article discusses the illocutionary and perlocutionary forces of discursive practices with which certain academic circles seek to discredit the Saidian ‘Orientalism’ framework. Identifying the unusual value attached to Said as object of attachment or detachment, desirability and exceptionality, this analysis turns away from deliberations about ‘orientalism’ as a party in a battle of ideas, and studies common cautionary statements and other responses by peers as actions in the social (academic) world, that enculture and police expectations. Cautioning subjects about this framework, or conditioning its employment to preceding extensive pre-emptive complicating mitigations, in effect constructs this framework as undesirable and ‘risky’. While strong discursive reactions are not uncommon in academia, comparing them to treatments of less-controversial social theories reveals formulations, meanings and attentions which are arguably reserved for this ‘theory’. Conclusively, common dismissals, warnings and criticisms of Said and ‘Orientalism’ often exemplify Saidian claims, as they deploy the powerful advantage of enforcing hegemonic, and indeed Orientalist, views.

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Pragmatic instruction in L2-Russian

Instructed Second Language Acquisition ◽

10.1558/isla.39864 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 62-95

Author(s):

Daniele Artoni ◽

Valentina Benigni ◽

Elena Nuzzo

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

Speech Acts ◽

Control Group ◽

Written Discourse ◽

Instructional Treatment ◽

Completion Task ◽

Positive Effect ◽

Experimental Group ◽

National Corpus ◽

Pragmatic Instruction

Over the last three decades, a growing number of studies have investigated the effects of instruction on the acquisition of pragmatic features in L2. The bulk of this research has focused mainly on the teaching of English as a second/foreign language. However, instructional pragmatic studies in L2-Russian are lacking. The main purpose of our study is to contribute towards filling this gap by analysing the effects of pragmatic instruction on the acquisition of two speech acts by Italian learners of Russian. Furthermore, we aim to explore whether the Multimodal Russian Corpus (MURCO), a multimedia subcorpus of the Russian National Corpus, can be an effective tool for teaching speech acts in L2-Russian. Our research was composed of one experimental group (n = 18) and one control group (n = 11); each was composed of two intact classes of Italian university students at an intermediate level of L2-Russian, who were pre- and post-tested using a written discourse completion task. The experimental group was subjected to a programme of pragmatic instruction – eight thirty-minute MURCO-based lessons devoted to requests and advice, while the control group was taught according to the standard syllabus, that is, with no pragmatic instruction. The results revealed that the use of the target pragmatic features varied significantly in the experimental group, but not in the control group, thus showing a general positive effect of the instructional treatment based on the MURCO corpus. However, some limitations were identified with regard to the usability of this tool by teachers and learners.

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SPEECH ACTS OF REGRET AND THEIR INTERRELATION WITH LINGUISTIC IDENTITY

Cherepovets State University Bulletin ◽

10.23859/1994-0637-2018-4-85-10 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4 (85) ◽

pp. 84-91

Author(s):

G.N. Chirsheva ◽

T.S. Lukina

Keyword(s):

Speech Acts ◽

Linguistic Identity

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Speech Acts by the Governor Candidates of North Sumatera in Political Debates

LINGUISTIK TERAPAN ◽

10.24114/lt.v12i2.2922 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Vidya Dwi Amalia Zati ◽

Sumarsih Sumarsih ◽

Lince Sihombing

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Research ◽

Speech Acts ◽

The Other ◽

Political Debate ◽

Direct Speech ◽

Dominant Type ◽

Political Debates ◽

The Way ◽

Descriptive Qualitative

The objectives of the research were to describe the types of speech acts used in televised political debates of governor candidates of North Sumatera, to derive the dominant type of speech acts used in televised political debates of governor candidates of North Sumatera and to elaborate the way of five governor candidates of North Sumatera use speech acts in televised political debates. This research was conducted by applying descriptive qualitative research. The findings show that there were only four types of speech acts used in televised political debates, Debat Pemilukada Sumatera Utara and Uji Publik Cagub dan Cawagub Sumatera Utara, they were assertives, directives, commissives and expressives. The dominant type of speech acts used in both televised political debates was assertives, with 82 utterances or 51.6% in Debat Pemilukada Sumatera Utara and 36 utterances or 41.37% in Uji Publik Cagub dan Cawagub Sumatera Utara. The way of governor candidates of North Sumatera used speech acts in televised political debates is in direct speech acts, they spoke straight to the point and clearly in order to make the other candidates and audiences understand their utterances. Keywords: Governor Candidate; Political Debate; Speech Acts

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THEORY OF SPEECH ACTS AND COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCES: PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE ILLOCUTIVE ACT “EXPRESSION OF REFUSALS”

International journal of word art ◽

10.26739/2181-9297-2020-5-13 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

pp. 77-81

Author(s):

Sayyora Azimova ◽

Keyword(s):

Speech Acts ◽

English Language ◽

Speech Act ◽

Pragmatic Analysis ◽

Pragmatic Interpretation

This article is devoted to the pragmatic interpretation of the illocutionary action of the speech act “expression of refusals”. The article discusses different ways of reflecting cases of denial. This article was written not only for English language professionals, but also for use in aggressive conflicts and their pragmatic resolution, which naturally occur in the process of communication in all other languages

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