Discussing course literature online: analysis of macro speech acts in an asynchronous computer conference

ReCALL ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riitta Kosunen
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Text Processing ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Language Pedagogy ◽  
Computer Conference ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Expository Discourse ◽  
University Course

AbstractThis paper presents a macro speech act analysis of computer-mediated conferencing on a university course on language pedagogy. Students read scholarly articles on language learning and discussed them online, in order to make sense of them collaboratively in preparation for a reflective essay. The study explores how the course participants made use of computer-mediated conferencing for such collaborative text processing. A discussion thread with 97 messages was analyzed for its macro speech acts. The conference messages were treated as pragmatic macrostructures where micro-level speech act sequences can be mapped onto a higher-level, global speech act or textual function. The discussion turned out to be reader-centred and practice-oriented. Approximately two thirds of the messages were concerned with interpreting theory from a practical point of view, expressing the students’ personal experience, opinion or idea about a certain issue related to the article. In comparison, only one tenth dealt with checking the explicit propositional content of the article. The results are interpreted in terms of the distinction between a narrative and paradigmatic/expository discourse.

scholarly journals Mandarin Language Students Illocutionary Acts in Japanese Language Learning at the University of Sumatera Utara

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-11
Author(s):  
Taulia Taulia ◽  
Laraiba Nasution
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Japanese Language ◽  
Mandarin Language ◽  
Written Form ◽  
Recorded Data ◽  
Directive Speech Acts ◽  
The University ◽  
Department Faculty

Speech acts play an essential role in language learning as an aspect that can improve a learner's ability to speak orally. In this research, illocutionary speech-acts  were described in the Japanese language learning process for students of the Mandarin Language Department, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, University of Sumatera Utara. This research is qualitative. The data are speech acts in the lecture process in class, especially in the discussion. The data sources were 40 fourth-semester students of the Mandarin Language Department. The theory used was the Searle speech act theory. Data collection techniques were carried out through observation, recording , and note-taking techniques. Data analysis techniques were carried out applying Miles & Huberman's opinion by condensing data through transcription of recorded data into written form, identifying forms, speech act functions, data presentation, and concluding. As a result, there were forms of illocutionary speech acts, namely directive, expressive, and declarative. Furthermore, the purpose used in class was in directive speech acts which were to order, ask, invite (engage). In other words, in expressive speech-act was praising, and in declarative speech-act was prohibiting. In conclusion, Japanese speech acts in Japanese class occured between lecturers and students and only consisted of several types of speech acts due to students' limited mastery of Japanese.

scholarly journals The Speech Act of Request in Computer-Mediated Communication

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Maria Miwita Rosari
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Online Discussion ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Discussion Forum ◽  
Law School ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Online Discussion Forum ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Politeness Strategies

Through conversation ones establish relationship with others and keep channels open for further relationships. Politeness strategies and issues have been the focus of a number of studies. The way ones request for something to others depends on some factors such as the context they are in and the interlocutors they talk to. This article aims at developing the latest discussion on politeness phenomena by paying attention to the specifics of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) settings specifically an online discussion forum. This article attempts to identify how speech act of request is performed in Top Law School (TLS) online discussion forum. The data were analyzed to observe the forms of speech act of request and the types of speech act of request performed in the online discussion forum. The findings of this paper revealed that the forms of speech act of request are expressed by declarative, interrogative, and imperative sentence. Moreover, the types of speech act of request employed by the users are directive, indirective, and literal speech acts. The writer believes that the study will be beneficial and a good reference for future researchers in conducting research on pragmatics under the same topic. Hopefully, it will enrich readers’ knowledge and understanding of the speech act of request and the politeness in CMC.

Speech acts and conversational sequencing

1994 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Brassac
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Conversational Analysis ◽  
Conversational Interactions ◽  
The One

The question of the use of speech act theory in accounting for conversational sequencing is discussed from the point of view of the explanation of linguistic interaction. On the one hand, this question lies at the heart of the opposition between conversational analysis and discourse analysis. On the other, it dominates the discussion around a text by Searle called "Conversation". After summarizing what is at stake in the debate, I focus on the positions of two authors, Dascal and Van Rees, who favor the idea of a possible (and necessary) combination of illocutionary logic and the analysis of conversational interactions. My own position consists in taking into account the new elements that have recently enriched illocutionary logic (particularly the integration of perlocution through the notion of satisfaction conditions) within the framework of an essentially dialogical position. The proposed approach is in agreement with the theses of these two authors and complements them with elements that satisfy their demands.

A pragmatic analysis of spontaneous imitations

1978 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph P. Folger ◽  
Robin S. Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Relative Frequency ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Rank Correlation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Spearman Rank Correlation ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Speech Events ◽  
Separate Class

ABSTRACTChildren's imitations were analysed as a function of parental speech acts for six children in early Stage I of language acquisition. The relative frequency with which children imitated mothers reflected the relative frequency with which mothers imitated children (Spearman rank correlation = 0·77). Although parents' imitative expansions could all be categorized as having primary speech act functions (e.g. request for information) from the parents' point of view, expansions constituted a separate class of speech events in terms of children's responses. The children imitated imitations far more frequently than non-imitative speech acts in the same category. These findings suggest that individual differences in children's propensity to imitate may arise from the degree to which parents provide a model of imitation as a speech act.

scholarly journals SPEECH ACTS PREFERENCE IN COMPUTER – MEDIATED INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION VIA FACEBOOK MESSENGER: A NETNOGRAPHIC STUDY

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yehezkiel Adhi Nugraha
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Direct Speech ◽  
Indirect Speech Acts ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Native Speakers Of English

<p>People will not only use language for sharing message but also due to do an action. Through language, people will ask, promise, refuse, greet, invite, thank, and so on. The purpose of this research is to identify the speech acts preference used by Indonesian and Filipino non – native speakers of English via Facebook Messenger. Besides, to identify the similar or different of speech acts preference they used.</p><p>             The source of data are utterances of conversation in Facebook Messenger. The researcher applies documentation and an observation (reading the book and internet as the references) in collecting the data. After collecting the data, the researcher analyzes the data by focusing the speech acts theory. In order to support the evidence of the result, the researcher needs to describe and compare the high context-cultures and low context-cultures by Hall (1976) and also cultural dimension of Indonesia and Philippines by Hofstede.</p>The result of the analysis shows that the most speech acts preference used by Indonesian and Filipino non - native speakers of English is direct speech act. Similar and different types of speech acts are found. The similar speech act preferences are found in declarations and representatives. The different speech acts preferences are found in expressives, directives, commissives, direct, and indirect speech acts. The result of this research also shows that the communication of Indonesian and Filipino are included into low contex-cultures. It is contrary with the theory of Hall and Hofstede which shows that Indonesia and Philippines factually should be high context-cultures.

scholarly journals Impoliteness of Directive Speech Acts in Online Indonesian Language Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-107
Author(s):  
Laili Etika Rahmawati ◽  
Nurul Hidayat ◽  
Andra Kurniawan
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
The Third ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Directive Speech Acts ◽  
Data Collection Technique ◽  
Directive Speech

This study aims to describe the impoliteness of directive speech acts in online Indonesian language learning. The data collection technique in this study used the observation, note, and record technique. The object of this research was the analysis of directive speech act impoliteness. The data analysis technique used in this study was a data triangulation model. The study results indicate an impoliteness of directive speech acts on Indonesian language learning conducted by the teacher. The teacher unintentionally performed impoliteness on the directive speech acts. The first data found that the teacher asked all the students to pay attention impolitely. The second data showed that the teacher as a speaker prohibits students from taking attendance. The third data showed that the teacher used the impolite directive speech acts when saying the utter "unnecessary" and "you pay less attention" to the students who forgot to attend the class. The data (3a) above includes the impoliteness of the directive speech act of the requesting because it does not contain politeness elements that can smooth speech. Data (4a) The teacher asks students who are not members to leave the WhatsApp group, but the teacher does not use soft sentences. Data (5a) stated that the teacher instructs the students to cut the paper using a cutter and make lines on it . Next, the data (5b) stated the teacher asks students to look at the learning material using impoliteness directive speech acts. Data (5c) stated that the teacher instructs students not to forget to fill the attendance. Data (6a) stated the teacher asks students to join the google classroom but does not use polite sentences. The data includes the directive speech act of the requesting marked with the word beg. Data (7a) Teachers require students to have sufficient quotas when participating in learning Indonesian online. Keywords: impoliteness, directive speech acts, Online learning

TINDAK TUTUR DALAM FILM “SURAT KECIL UNTUK TUHAN” KARYA HARRIS NIZAM: SEBUAH TINJAUAN PRAGMATIK DAN IMPLIKASINYA TERHADAP PEMBELAJARAN BAHASA

EDUKASI ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Small Letter ◽  
The Unified Method ◽  
Data Collection Procedure ◽  
Unified Method

The background of this research is speech act as one important aspect in achieving a desired outcome by the speaker to the hearer. This research aimed to determine the use of locution, illocution, perlocution, in the movie “Small Letter to God” by Harris Nizam. This research uses descriptive qualitative method. Data collection procedure in this study refers to the method to obtain data on the use of language by listening, and implication af speech act against Indonesian language learning at school. Basic techniques in this method are tapping and recording. Data were analyzed using the unified method. The techniques used are referential techniques to describe speech act conversations in the film, and pragmatic techniques to explain the speech acts and intentions of speakers based on speech act theory. This research conclude as follows: (1) in the film of  “Small Letter to God” by Harris Nizam dominating by locution act; (2) speech act illocution found in film consisting of speech act of illocution are representative, directive, komisive, and expressive. The act of illocution speech act was not found in this film; (3) a speech perlocution also found in film conversation. Beside that speech act consisting of locution, illocution perlocution also found in  “Small Letter to God” by Harris Nizam; (4) the findings speech act should be used by teachers in teaching Indonesia language  communicatively  related to pragmatic  topic. Keywords:  Speech Act, Locution, Ilocution, Perlocution, Film.

scholarly journals Motor Car Advertisements Texts: An Analysis of Pragmatic

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 239
Author(s):  
Herlina Herlina
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Motor Vehicle ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Illocutionary Act ◽  
Descriptive Method

In this paper the writer tries to analyze the motor vehicle advertisement texts from pragmatics point of view through classifying and describing the speech act types. Since this research is a qualitative, the writer uses descriptive method with speech act theory of pragmatics from Cutting and Yule. The writer collects the data from www.adsoftheworld.com, www.adslogans.co.uk and www.textart.ru, March 18th 2014. In analyzing data, the writer classified the data into table list. The classification is divided into speech act types and speech act levels, they are locutionary act as the ad texts and illocutionary act as the advertisers intention behind.  At the end of the research is found that related to the purpose of the ad in conveying its audience, there are representative and directive of speech act types. Representative are those kinds of speech act that state what the speaker believes to be the case or not and directive those kinds of speech acts that the speakers use to get someone else to do something. Therefore, the research hopefully brings about more comprehension on the motor vehicle advertisements which are often found in motor vehicle advertisements texts.

scholarly journals Speech Act of Threat in Everyday Conflict Discourse: Production and Perception

Lege Artis ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikita Probst ◽  
Tatiana Shkapenko ◽  
Arina Tkachenko ◽  
Alexey Chernyakov
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Discourse Production ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Colloquial Speech

Abstract The article explores pragmasemantic aspects of the speech act of threat (SAT) in everyday conflict discourse, using examples from Russian colloquial speech. The authors analyze the impact of direct and indirect threats on the addressee from the point of view of the theory of speech acts, biopsychology, and physiology, which makes it possible to understand the nature of SATs and identify the key communicative and semantic factors of this type of speech acts.

scholarly journals Directive Speech Act in Interactive Videos of Indonesian Language Learning in Senior High School

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 157
Author(s):  
Santi Oktavia ◽  
Sarwiji Suwandi ◽  
Budhi Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Interactive Video ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Directive Speech Acts ◽  
Interactive Videos ◽  
Directive Speech

Directive speech act is very important in learning interactions because it makes it easier for students to understand learning material. Seeing the COVID-19 pandemic situation, learning was carried out online, so teachers had to use other alternatives in delivering material. One of them is using digital media in the form of interactive video lessons. Interactive videos make it easier for students and teachers to carry out learning. This study aims to describe directive speech acts in interactive learning videos in high school. The data of this research is in the form of directive speech acts in interactive learning videos of Indonesian in Senior High School. The data source is an interactive video document of Indonesian language learning in Senior High School which was obtained from the Teacher Room and Senior High School Directory of the Ministry of Education and Culture. The technique of collecting data used listening and taking notes. The data validity used source and theory triangulation. The data analysis technique used interactive data analysis (Miles and Huberman). The results of the study concluded that there were fifty-three directive speech act data consisting of: requests for twenty-four data, orders as many as seventeen data, ordering as many as two data, and giving advice as many as ten data.

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