Transferable communicative routines: strategies and group identity in two speech events

1975 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Ann Watson
Keyword(s):  
Group Identity ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Group Setting ◽  
Social Rules ◽  
Speech Event ◽  
Speech Data ◽  
Talk Story ◽  
Speech Events

ABSTRACTTwo speech events, narration and joking conversation, are analyzed from a sample of speech data recorded from Hawaiian children 5–7 years old, in a peer group setting. An underlying routine, which is transferable from one genre of speech event to another, is identified in both narration and joking. This routine is iterative, and allows for both stories and joking to be produced jointly in a contrapuntal style. Some social rules governing the use of the routine are discussed. (Linguistic routines, narration, joking, conversation, Hawaiian talk story.)

Speech events and natural speech: some implications for sociolinguistic methodology

1976 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nessa Wolfson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Natural Speech ◽  
Specific Variable ◽  
Speech Event ◽  
Present Tense ◽  
Group Sessions ◽  
Speech Events ◽  
The Way

ABSTRACTSamples of speech suitable for sociolinguistic analysis may be sought in several ways. Interviews (either formal or informal), and tape-recorded group sessions, are the methods most used currently. In research on a specific variable, the historical present tense (HP), none of these methods proved neutral or adequate. Although the historical present tense is very widely used in conversational narratives, its occurrence within interviews is so infrequent as to be striking. An explanation was found in the way in which the interview has a specific known place as a speech event in the culture of those whose speech was being studied. The so-called spontaneous interview does not have such a place, and for that very reason is even less satisfactory a source of data. The notion of natural speech is taken as properly equivalent to that of appropriate speech; as not equivalent to unselfconscious speech; and as observable easily, and often best, by simple techniques of participation. (Sociolinguistic methodology; speech events, interviews, observation, natural speech; United States English).

The importance of borrowing across disciplines

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 452-469
Author(s):  
Roger W. Shuy
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Schema Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Optimal Sequence ◽  
Speech Event ◽  
Inverted Pyramid ◽  
Speech Events

Abstract Over the years, linguists have borrowed from other allied fields, including speech events from cultural anthropology, schema theory from psychology, speech acts from philosophy, and conversational strategies from rhetoric. In analyzing large and continuous chunks of conversational data, the first and most important of these borrowings is the speech event, for it sets the stage in which the other language elements are embedded and provides a useful sequence for analyzing everything else, including the conventional linguistic tools of the grammar and lexicon. The present paper represents the optimal sequence of analysis as an Inverted Pyramid, starting with the speech event and then moving down the order to schemas, agendas, speech acts, conversational strategies, and finally to the grammar and lexicon that are embedded within each other. Two prominent criminal law investigations are used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the Inverted Pyramid approach for understanding this evidence.

scholarly journals Ethical Issues in School-Based Research

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 104-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heike Felzmann
Keyword(s):  
Informed Consent ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Physical Nature ◽  
Informed Consent Process ◽  
Consent Process ◽  
Group Setting ◽  
Multiple Stakeholders ◽  
School Settings ◽  
School Based

This paper provides an introduction to ethical issues arising in children's research that takes place in school-settings. It addresses three main areas of ethical concern: the informed consent process, confidentiality, and harm and benefit. Informed consent in school settings is characterized by the involvement of multiple stakeholders, including not just researchers, parents and individual children but also school principals, teachers and the children's peer group. The added complexity of the setting has implications for the management of the informed consent process, including the decision at what point and in which manner each stakeholder group needs to be involved in the process. The presence and divergent roles of these multiple stakeholders in the school setting also have implications for addressing issues of confidentiality, especially due to the group setting in which participants take part in the research and role expectations within school settings. Harm and benefit in school-based research are of a non-physical nature; relevant areas of concern relate primarily to the potential for psychological and social harm, realistic presentation of likely benefits from research and the issue of rewards for research participation.

scholarly journals KALEMBO ADE AS AN INSTRUMENT OF RESOLVING CONFLICT AMONG MBOJO COMMUNITY: A STUDY ON SPEECH ACT

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Muhammad Sahrain ◽  
Lalu Ari Irawan
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Verbal Interaction ◽  
Speech Event ◽  
Speech Events ◽  
Speech Act Analysis

This study aims at describing variation of meaning carried in kalembo ade as an instrument of resolving conflict among individuals and groups in Mbojo community by applying speech act analysis. Data were collected from speech events in Mbojo community and further analyzed descriptively. One type of speech acts was taken by considering its relevancy towards to focus of this study, i.e. expressive. Results showed that kalembo ade dealt with one of types of speech acts, i.e. Expressive type. The expression was found to reflect some actions, including condolences, apologies, greetings, thanksgivings, refusal, and congratulations. Hence, by viewing the context of usage, members of Mbojo community used this expression as an instrument in communication to resolve conflict, in which the phrase was used as tool to control verbal interaction during a speech event.

scholarly journals TINDAK TUTUR DALAM PERSPEKTIF KAJIAN WACANA

Diksi ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Imam Suyitno
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Speech Event ◽  
Speech Events

All members of a society master at least one language and use it ininteraction and communication by which they are able to conduct social functionsto express their nature as social beings. As social activities, the interaction andcommunication reflect cultural products expressed in conversational discourse.With regards to the speech act theory, the discourse always occurs in a speechsituation, in which a speech event occurs. Speech events consist of speech acts. Onthe basis of these paradigms, we can conclude that in nature discourse is a set ofspeech acts so that the speech act theory can be used as an approach to analyzingdiscourses.Keywords: speech acts, discourse, discourse analysisA.

Prosecutors Use Deceptive Ambiguity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger W. Shuy
Keyword(s):  
Grand Jury ◽  
Defense Attorneys ◽  
Speech Event ◽  
Murder Trial ◽  
Speech Events ◽  
Ways Of Being

Since prosecution speech events are conducted in the presence of judges and defense attorneys, prosecutors must use more subtle ways of being ambiguously deceptive. In the perjury hearing of union agent Steven Suyat, the prosecutor’s ambiguity converted the speech event of using Suyat as his own witness against other union members into an indictment against Suyat, then used deceptive ambiguity about Suyat’s schema for why he was testifying, conversational strategies for eliciting what appeared to be guilt, and meanings of words that were not shared by Suyat. In the murder trial of Larry Gentry, his prosecutor created ambiguity about Gentry’s concept of the speech event and schema of why he was involved, finally reinterpreting Gentry’s words to make him appear guilty of aiding and abetting. The grand jury hearing of Father Joseph Sica illustrates the prosecutor’s deceptive ambiguity relating to the speech event and schemas, but especially to his reinterpretation of Sica’s words.

Collaborative oral narratives of general experience: when an interview becomes a conversation

2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Lambrou
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Oral Narratives ◽  
Activity Type ◽  
Speech Event ◽  
Greek Cypriot ◽  
Speech Genre ◽  
General Experience ◽  
Social Act

This article explores the shift in speech genre from a peer group interview speech event to an activity type with interactive features resembling a casual conversation and the consequent effects on the narrator, interviewees and process of story-telling. It reports on sociolinguistic interviews in which collection of oral narratives of personal experience among members of the Greek Cypriot community in London becomes collaborative and facilitates the co-production of spoken personal narratives (hence the ‘general experience’ of the title). The highly social act of narrating sees the emergence of explicit and implicit collaborative strategies, specifically the use of prompts and requests for clarification, which appear to be an inevitable outcome of narrating in a setting where the audience is wider than just the interviewer.

scholarly journals TINDAK TUTUR DALAM SURAT PERJANJIAN KERJA DI PERUSAHAAN MINYAK BOJONEGORO (SPEECH ACT IN THE CONTRACT OF AGREEMENT OF BOJONEGORO OIL COMPANY)

Kadera Bahasa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arif Izzak
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Speech Event ◽  
Extended Technique ◽  
Speech Events ◽  
Oil Company ◽  
Directive Speech ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Base Technique

One of the speech events involving speaker/writer and listener/reader is letter of agreement. This contract of agreement is between employer and employee. This speech event in the form of contract of aggreement is a process of communication built between the company and the employee within which any kinds of speech act are involved and applied in order to negotiate messages. Dealing with this speech act, the writer would like to study kinds of speech act in the letter of aggreement. Writer wants to identify and describe the category of the speech act applied in the contract. This is important since the momentumof signing the contract is the crucial moment with which problems usually come up between employer and employee. This pragmatic study makes use of descriptive method with qualitative approach. The method used in the data analysis is distributional accompanied by subdivision base technique and followed by extended technique. The results are that there are four kinds of speech act which are involved in the contract of aggreement namely, representative speech act, (assertif), commissive speech act, directive speech act, and declarative speech act. Besides those four kinds of speech act, there are also found the mix-speech acts namely, assertive-commissive, directive-commissive, assertive-declarative, and commissive-declarative. Kind of speech act which occurs the most frequently in the contract of aggreement is directive speech act.

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