Postproverbials in Igbo Language

Matatu ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 393-405
Author(s):  
Ifeoma Abana ◽  
Obiora Eke
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Traditional Society ◽  
Conversational Implicature ◽  
Pragmatic Theory ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
New Meanings

Abstract This treatise assesses the pragmatic implicature derived during the use of postproverbials in Igbo language and culture. Igbo proverbs have been so much studied that it would certainly be monotonous for a paroemiographer to resume making belated significance of Igbo speculations on the meaning and essence of a proverb. It is a glaring fact that that there is virtually no substantial controversy about the importance of proverbs in culture and the significance of proverbs in Igbo traditional society as a repository and verbal effulgence of wisdom is indeed proverbial. This study relies on Austin’s pragmatic theory of speech acts, conversational implicature and presupposition. The data is drawn from oral interview conducted by the researchers on ten Igbo elders with the aim of unraveling the linguistic idiosyncrasies associated with the connotation of postproverbials as it relates to different contextual usages. The paper will look at the development of this threat to the fixability of Igbo proverbs, the normative rapture and by extension establish the presence of “new” proverbs with new syntactic forms, new meanings and perhaps, new values. The analytic emphasis is based on the type of transformation, the shift in the construction of users. This paper concludes that postproverbiality is situated in the dynamic space of informal speech of a younger and adventurous generation.

Pragmatics

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Potts
Keyword(s):  
Computational Linguistics ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Context Dependence ◽  
Conversational Implicature ◽  
Linguistic Pragmatics ◽  
Primary Literature ◽  
High Level

This chapter reviews core empirical phenomena and technical concepts from linguistic pragmatics, including context dependence, common ground, indexicality, conversational implicature, presupposition, and speech acts. It seeks to identify unifying themes among these concepts, provide a high-level guide to the primary literature, and relate the phenomena to issues in computational linguistics.

scholarly journals Utilization Of The Direct And Indirect Speech Act Of Assertion By The Sentence Types

2018 ◽  
Vol 216 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-126
Author(s):  
Samir Jamal Ibraheem
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Sentence Type ◽  
Real Problem ◽  
Direct Speech ◽  
Pragmatic Theory ◽  
Political Speeches ◽  
Communicative Act ◽  
Indirect Speech Act ◽  
Shed Light

   Tackling any text, e.g. political one, without pragmatic theory constitutes a real problem in the communicative act. the need to shed light on distinctive rules concerning the speech act of assertion is crucial. So this study is concerned with how to establish a model of expressing the speech act of assertion, whether direct or indirect, by using the sentence types of declarative, interrogative, or imperative sentences. Since this utilization highly overlaps with other speech acts as command, obligation, permission, ability, etc. Therefore, this research attempts to answer the following questions: 1- Can this study formulate a model for analysing the speech act of assertion, and on which bases it can be established? 2- How to formulate Felicity conditions for the speech act of assertion? 3- Whether speech act of assertion can be successfully applied to political  speeches? 4- Which sentence type can typically express the direct speech act of assertion? 5- Could other sentence types indicate the speech act of assertion?

scholarly journals Pragmatic Functions of Insya Allah in Indonesian Speeches

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hendi Pratama
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Pragmatic Approach ◽  
Expressive Speech ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Reliable Marker

Insya Allah has been part of the Indonesian language and culture for a long time. However, there were very few linguistics studies on the use of Insya Allah. This study aimed to analyse the use of Insya Allah in the Indonesian context using the pragmatic approach. A total of 100 utterances spoken by various speakers at various situations were collected. The study focused on identifying the types of speech acts performed by Insya Allah using Searle’s speech act taxonomy (Searle, 1979). At the second stage, the pragmatic functions of Insya Allah were identified using a combination of classifications used by Pishghadam and Kermananshahi (2012), Nazzal (2005), Ibrahim, Shah, and Armia (2013), and Mohamed Ali (2014). The findings showed that Insya Allah was a reliable marker for commissive and expressive speech acts. This study also found two additional pragmatic functions of Insya Allah which have not been identified in previous studies.

scholarly journals The semiotic model of a historical process: History — between grammar and rhetoric

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 499-509
Author(s):  
Ilia Kalinin
Keyword(s):  
Communication Process ◽  
Historical Event ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Semiotic Model ◽  
Time Control ◽  
Cultural Codes ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Scientific Project ◽  
Cultural Code

The paper is devoted to the problem of the linguistic grounds of the semiotic model of history, according to which history is described as a communication process circulating within a society. An analogy of principle between language and culture is the theoretical premise of that semiotic approach. Proceeding on this assumption semiotics (B. Uspensky’s case for instance) regards historical process as the process of text outcome and reading, while at the same time control over communication is provided through the cultural code or in other words — through the grammar of history. But the description of history as just the functioning of a single and unified grammatical code doesn’t make it possible to explain the appearance of new meanings or history par excellence. J. Lotman interpreted the rhetorical mechanism of text outcome as the working of two (at a minimum) interplaying semiotic systems. It is the principle of its working that he takes as a basis of his semiotic version of cultural diachrony. And at the very point semiotics finds itself in front of the choice: either to stop at the decomposition the rhetorical machine on separate cultural codes and at the description their separate grammars, or to conceptualize a historical event as un-grammatism, grammatical error, “wrong text”. The analytical way leads to an extremely reduced theoretical construction; the synthetic way undermines status of the semiotic model of history as a positivistic scientific project.

scholarly journals ПРАВИЛА ЯЗЫКА — РЕЧИ — СЛОВА В ПСАЛТИРИ, ПРИТЧАХ СОЛОМОНА И ЕВАНГЕЛИИ

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-37
Author(s):  
Vladimir Annushkin
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Communication ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Dual Nature ◽  
Ethical Assessment ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
European Culture ◽  
New Meanings

Spiritual texts implicitly contain rules and recommendations for the construction of speech communication. These rules are derived from direct references to the language-speech-word, or indicate speech actions or language actions. The texts of the Psalter, the book of Proverbs of Solomon, and the Holy Gospel are selected for this article. The author identified direct or hidden references to the terms language-speech-word-mouth that express judgments about the content or evaluation of these words in the life of a person. All these terms are used in the sense of “an instrument of communication, an instrument of organizing human contacts.” And they all receive a fundamentally dual moral and ethical assessment: language-speech-word can either “praise God” and be “words of good,” carry “joy in the response of the mouth,” or become an instrument of evil (“slander”), deception (“flattery”), suffering and destruction (“flood verbs”). Compared with oral pre-literate speech in folklore at a new stage of civilization development, these terms have acquired new meanings in written and printed literature: the term language obtains the meaning of “people” (in the Psalter), the term word becomes of overriding importance for European culture as the Word of God (the Holy Gospel), and the term mouth is metaphorically used most frequently in the Proverbs of Solomon. The revealed position in regard to the primacy of moral and ethical requirements for the speaker in the preparation of speech, when “pure heart” is mentioned first (“create a pure heart in me, oh God”), about righteousness and wisdom (in “Parables”), about the qualities of a person (see the Beatitudes), and only then it is about actions “of the tongue and mouth.” The duality of assessments of language-speech-word also speaks of the dual nature of man, who either “praises God with his mouth” or receives “judgment” for idle and false words. The analysis of judgments about language-speech-word-mouth in spiritual texts allows us to form recommendations and instructions for language acts and actions of a modern person who must preserve moral and cultural traditions and creatively apply the newly revealed rules in their own speech acts.

scholarly journals TINDAK TUTUR DIREKTIF MENYURUH TOKOH PROTAGONIS DALAM NOVEL BIDADARI-BIDADARI SURGA KARYA TERE LIYE/DIRECTIVE MEASURING OF PROTAGONIC CHARACTERS IN BIDADARI-BIDADARI SURGA NOVEL KARYA TERE LIYE

Aksara ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-120
Author(s):  
Mia Salfita ◽  
Ngusman Abdul Manaf
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Pragmatic Theory ◽  
Part Of Speech ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Directive Speech Acts ◽  
Directive Speech

AbstrakPenelitian terhadap novel Bidadari-Bidadari Surga karya Tere Liye ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan kesantunan tindak tutur menyuruh pada tokoh protagonis dalam novel Bidadari-Bidadari Surga karya Tere Liye. Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian kualitatif dengan menggunakan metode deskriptif. Sumber data dalam penelitian ini adalah novel Bidadari-Bidadari Surga karya Tere Liye. Data penelitian ini adalah tindak tutur direktif menyuruh pada tokoh protagonis dalam novel tersebut. Data dikumpulkan dengan cara membaca dan memahami novel, mencatat kata, frasa, klausa, dan kalimat tokoh yang dapat dirumuskan sebagai bagian dari tuturan maupun tindak tutur menyuruh, dan menginventarisasikan data berdasarkan masalah-masalah tindak tutur direktif yang terdapat dalam novel Bidadari-Bidadari Surga karya Tere Liye. Data dianalisis dan dibahas berdasarkan teori pragmatik. Dalam penelitian ini ditemukan sembilan tuturan tindak tutur direktif menyuruh, yang menunjukkan bahwa tokoh protagonis dalam novel Bidadari-Bidadari Surga karya Tere Liye cenderung melakukan tindak tutur menyuruh secara santun. Strategi bertutur tokoh utama dalam novel cenderung menggunakan tindak menyuruh kepada adik-adiknya. Kata kunci: tindak tutur direktif menyuruh, pragmatik, novel, Bidadari-Bidadari Surga AbstractThis research on the novel Bidadari-Bidadari Surga by Tere Liye aims to explain the politeness of the speech acts of the protagonist in Tere Liye's novel Bidadari-Bidadari Surga. This type of research is qualitative research using descriptive methods. The data source in this research is the novel Bidadari-Bidadari Surga by Tere Liye. The data of this research are directive speech acts ordered to the protagonist in the novel. Data were collected by understanding the novel, noting down words, phrases, clauses, or sentences that can be formulated as part of speech acts, and making an inventory of the data based on the problems of directive speech acts contained in Tere Liye's novel Bidadari-Bidadari Surga. Data were analyzed and based on pragmatic theory. The results of this study shows nine directive ordered speech act utterances, which indicate that the protagonist in the novel Bidadari-Bidadari Surga by Tere Liye tends to perform speech acts politely. The strategy of telling the main character in the novel tends to use commands to order his younger siblings. Keywords: directive speech act ordered, pragmatic, novel, Bidadari-Bidadari Surga 

The Lying-Misleading Distinction: A Commitment-Based Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (6) ◽  
pp. 289-319
Author(s):  
Emanuel Viebahn ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Conversational Implicature ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Definition Of

The distinction between lying and mere misleading is commonly tied to the distinction between saying and conversationally implicating. Many definitions of lying are based on the idea that liars say something they believe to be false, while misleaders put forward a believed-false conversational implicature. The aim of this paper is to motivate, spell out, and defend an alternative approach, on which lying and misleading differ in terms of commitment: liars, but not misleaders, commit themselves to something they believe to be false. This approach entails that lying and misleading involve speech-acts of different force. While lying requires the committal speech-act of asserting, misleading involves the non-committal speech-act of suggesting. The approach leads to a broader definition of lying that can account for lies that are told while speaking non-literally or with the help of presuppositions, and it allows for a parallel definition of misleading, which so far is lacking in the debate.

Assertion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitchell S. Green
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Linguistic Community ◽  
Evolutionary Perspective ◽  
Conversational Implicature ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Indirect Speech ◽  
Indirect Speech Acts

Assertion is here approached as a social practice developed through cultural evolution. This perspective will facilitate inquiry into questions concerning what role assertion plays in communicative life, what norms it is subject to, and whether every viable linguistic community must have a practice of assertion. The author’s evolutionary perspective will further enable us to ask how assertion relates to other communicative practices such as conversational implicature, indirect speech acts, presupposition, and, more broadly, the kinematics of conversation. It will also motivate a resolution of debates between conventionalist and intentionalist approaches to this speech act by explaining how those who make assertions can embody their intentions to perform an act of a certain kind. The chapter closes with a discussion of how assertoric practice can be compromised by patterns of malfeasance on the part of a speaker and by injustice within her milieu.

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