Speech Acts as a Variety of Verbal Communication

ABSTRACTA theoretical framework is presented to account for various means of indirect verbal communication used by the Baatombu of northern Benin to accomplish face-threatening acts, and a particular technique involving dog names is discussed. By carefully choosing a proverbial name for a puppy, the owner can then, simply by calling the dog, convey a message meant either for a particular neighbor or for anyone who hears it and feels concerned by its content. This diplomatic way of expressing oneself when a difference arises is doubly indirect: (a) The dog's owner makes use of a pseudo-addressee (the dog), and (b) the message is formulated with a proverb, therefore with words of which the owner is not the author. (Animal names, Africa, communicative acts, ethnography of speaking, indirectness, politeness, speech acts)

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Delivering Oracles from God: The Nature of Christian Communication in 1 Peter 4:11a

Harvard Theological Review ◽

10.1017/s0017816020000139 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 113 (3) ◽

pp. 334-353

Author(s):

Travis B. Williams

Keyword(s):

Speech Acts ◽

Verbal Communication ◽

Spoken Word ◽

Divine Revelation ◽

1 Peter ◽

The Church ◽

Direct Correspondence

AbstractIn 1 Pet 4:11a, those who exercise χαρίσματα involving speech acts are instructed to carry out their tasks ὡσ λόγια θεοῦ. Two interpretations of this phrase have gained prominence within Petrine scholarship. Some claim that Scripture is being referenced to establish a standard for regulating the use of communicative gifts in the church. Others contend that the verse sets up a hypothetical comparison designed to emphasize the appropriate manner in which the spoken word should be performed. The problem is that both of these positions have left crucial questions unattended. The purpose of this study is to provide a close examination of the three issues that most significantly impact the interpretation of 1 Pet 4:11a: (1) the meaning of λόγια; (2) the reconstruction of verbal elision; and (3) the Petrine author’s view of divine revelation through human mediation. In the end, I suggest that the verse is intended to convey a direct correspondence between the comparative image (i.e., one who delivers oracles from God) and the ministry of those who exercised speaking gifts within the Anatolian congregations. That is, when Christians rendered service to the community through various forms of verbal communication, they were understood to be dispensing divine revelation.

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Finding a model for contrastive lexical semantics: A look at verbal communication verbs

Linguistics Beyond and Within (LingBaW) ◽

10.31743/lingbaw.5659 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 3 ◽

pp. 195-215

Author(s):

Åke Viberg

Keyword(s):

Speech Acts ◽

Argument Structure ◽

Semantic Analysis ◽

Special Section ◽

Morphological Structure ◽

Verbal Communication ◽

Parallel Corpus ◽

Contrastive Study ◽

Starting Point ◽

Decompositional Analysis

A basic problem for contrastive lexical studies in general is to find a model for the semantic analysis. This paper is one in a series of corpus-based contrastive studies of the field of Verbal Communication Verbs (VCVs) in English and Swedish. Searle’s classification of speech acts serves as an important starting point but is not directly concerned with lexical structure, which is a major concern for the two theories that are compared in this study. FrameNet based on Fillmore’s theory of semantic frames and Wierzbicka’s theory of semantic primitives (or “primes”). The theories are applied and tested on data from the English Swedish Parallel Corpus (ESPC) containing English and Swedish original texts together with their translations into the other language. Primarily two groups of English verbs and their Swedish correspondents will be analyzed: (1) Information verbs such as tell, inform, notify, report, narrate and describe and (2) Speech activity verbs such as talk, speak, chat, converse, gossip, discuss, debate, negotiate and bargain. There is also an analysis of Swedish berätta ‘tell, narrate’ based on the Multilingual Parallel Corpus (MPC) as an example of multilingual contrastive analysis. Frames relate in a clear way the conceptual structure and the syntactic argument structure, which is very useful in a contrastive study. However, the definition of the meaning of individual verbs is incomplete and needs to be complemented with some kind of decompositional analysis such as the theory of semantic primes. A special section is devoted to an analysis of a large number of compound and derived forms of the Swedish verb tala ‘speak’ and a discussion of how contrasts in morphological structure can affect the lexical contrasts between two languages.

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THE ANALYSIS OF SPEECH ACT IN VERBAL COMMUNICATION BETWEEN HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS AND PATIENTS IN PUBLIC HEALTH CENTRE BRANCH KEROBOKAN KELOD

JEES Journal of English Educational Study ◽

10.31932/jees.v2i1.381 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 11-20

Author(s):

Ni Komang Purwaningsih ◽

Si Putu Agung Ayu Pertiwi Dewi

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Speech Acts ◽

Healthcare Professionals ◽

Speech Act ◽

Health Centre ◽

Main Tool ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

Verbal Communication ◽

Public Health Centre ◽

Everyday Communication

Language plays an important role in our life. Through language, we can transmit messages, communicate ideas, thoughts, and opinions. It is realized that language as the main tool for communication. In everyday communication, we are attuned not primary to the sentences we utter to one another, but also the speech act of those utterances. Communication will be successful when there is no misinterpretation. Communication can be held based on the situations, means that different speech situations will show the use of different speech acts too. One of the speech situations which can give us an idea of the usage of speech acts is in the health care sector. This study aimed at analyzing speech act in verbal communication between healthcare professionals and patients in Public Health Centre Branch Kerobokan Kelod.This study used the descriptive qualitative method with a total sampling technique. The population and sample of this study were the entire healthcare professional in Public Health Centre. The number of samples was 25 respondents.This study is expected to improve the healthcare professional’s skill in communicating based on the situation, therefore, the goal of health service which is targeted can be reached by the patients or patients’ family.

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KALIMAT TIDAK BERKLAUSA DALAM BAHASA INDONESIA

Widyaparwa ◽

10.26499/wdprw.v47i1.291 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 47 (1) ◽

pp. 57-68

Author(s):

I. Praptomo Baryadi

Keyword(s):

Data Analysis ◽

Data Collection ◽

Speech Acts ◽

Speech Act ◽

Verbal Communication ◽

Information Giving ◽

Observation Method ◽

Bahasa Indonesia

This article discusses sentences without clauses in Indonesian. The discussion includes the type of intent, the type of speech act, level of politeness, and its function in verbal communication. The method used is the observation method for data collection, pragmatic identity methods for data analysis, and formal and informal methods for presenting the results of data analysis.The findings of this study are as follows. First, there are at least fifteen purposes contained in sentences without clauses, namely ‘praising’, ‘congratulating’or‘compassing’, ‘thanking’, ‘apologizing’, ‘forgiving’, ‘delivering greetings’, ‘greeting’ or’calling’, ‘approving’, ‘squealing’, ‘conveying information’, ‘giving confirmation’, ‘refusing’, ‘commanding’, ‘cursing’, and ‘threatening’.. Second, sentences without clauses in Indonesian can be grouped into four types of speech acts, namely (i) convivial speech acts consisting of ‘praising’,’congratulating’ or ‘compassing’, ‘thanking’, ‘apologizing’, ‘forgiving’; (ii) collaborative speech acts include sentences that intend to ‘delivering greetings’, ‘greeting’ or ‘calling’, ‘approving’, ‘squealing’ ; (iii) competitive speech acts covers sentences that intend to ‘conveying information’ and ‘giving confirmation’; (iv) conflictive speech acts including sentences that mean ‘refusing’, ‘commanding’ , ‘cursing’, and ‘threatening’. Third, the level of politeness of sentences without clauses in the Indonesian, from the highest to the lowest is from sentences that include convivial speech acts, collaborative speech acts, competitive speech acts, and conflictive speech acts. Fourth, in verbal communication, the function of sentences without clauses in Indonesian is ideational, interpersonal, textual.Artikel ini membahas kalimat tidak berklausa dalam bahasa Indonesia. Pembahasannya mencakup jenis maksud, jenis tindak tutur, tingkat kesopanan, dan fungsinya dalam komunikasi verbal. Metode yang digunakan adalah metode simak dalam pengumpulan data, metode padan pragmatis dalam analisis data, dan metode formal serta informal dalam penyajian hasil analisis data. Temuan penelitian ini adalah sebagai berikut. Pertama, ada sekurang-kurangnya lima belas jenis maksud yang dikandung dalam kalimat tidak berklausa dalam bahasa Indonesia, yaitu ‘memuji’, ‘mengucapkan selamat’ atau ‘bela rasa’, ‘berterima kasih’, ‘meminta maaf’, ‘memaafkan’, ‘menyampaikan salam’, ‘menyapa’ atau ‘memanggil’, ‘menyetuju’, ‘memekikkan’, ‘menyampaikan informasi’, ‘menyampaikan konfirmasi’, ‘menolak’, ‘memerintah’, ‘memaki’, dan ‘mengancam’. Kedua, kalimat tanpa klausa dalam bahasa Indonesia dapat dikelompokkan ke dalam empat jenis tindak tutur, yaitu (i) tindak tutur konvivial meliputi kalimat yang bermaksud 'memuji', 'mengucapkan selamat' atau ‘bela rasa’, 'berterima kasih', 'meminta maaf', dan 'memaafkan'; (ii) tindak tutur kolaboratif mencakup kalimat yang bermaksud 'menyampaikan salam', 'menyapa' atau 'memanggil', 'menyetujui’, dan ‘memekikkan'; (iii) tindak tutur kompetitif terdiri atas kalimat yang bermaksud 'menyampaikan informasi' dan 'menyampaikan konfirmasi'; (iv) tindak tutur konfliktif meliputi kalimat yang bermaksud 'menolak', 'menyuruh', 'memaki', dan 'mengancam'. Ketiga, tingkat kesopanan kalimat tidak berklausa dalam bahasa Indonesia, dari yang paling tinggi sampai yang paling rendah adalah dari kalimat yang termasuk tindak tutur konvivial, tindak tutur kolaboratif, tindak tutur kompetitif, sampai tindak tutur konfliktif. Keempat, dalam komunikasi verbal kalimat tidak berklausa dalam bahasa Indonesia memiliki fungsi ideasional, interpersonal, dan tekstual.

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Parent Education in Studies With Nonverbal and Minimally Verbal Participants With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology ◽

10.1044/2019_ajslp-19-00007 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

pp. 890-902

Author(s):

Lynn Kern Koegel ◽

Katherine M. Bryan ◽

Pumpki Lei Su ◽

Mohini Vaidya ◽

Stephen Camarata

Keyword(s):

Systematic Review ◽

Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽

Parent Education ◽

Autism Spectrum ◽

Verbal Communication ◽

Fidelity Of Implementation ◽

Spectrum Disorder ◽

Education Programs ◽

Minimally Verbal ◽

Parent Education Programs

Purpose The purpose of this systematic review was to identify parent education procedures implemented in intervention studies focused on expressive verbal communication for nonverbal (NV) or minimally verbal (MV) children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Parent education has been shown to be an essential component in the habilitation of individuals with ASD. Parents of individuals with ASD who are NV or MV may particularly benefit from parent education in order to provide opportunities for communication and to support their children across the life span. Method ProQuest databases were searched between the years of 1960 and 2018 to identify articles that targeted verbal communication in MV and NV individuals with ASD. A total of 1,231 were evaluated to assess whether parent education was implemented. We found 36 studies that included a parent education component. These were reviewed with regard to (a) the number of participants and participants' ages, (b) the parent education program provided, (c) the format of the parent education, (d) the duration of the parent education, (e) the measurement of parent education, and (f) the parent fidelity of implementation scores. Results The results of this analysis showed that very few studies have included a parent education component, descriptions of the parent education programs are unclear in most studies, and few studies have scored the parents' implementation of the intervention. Conclusions Currently, there is great variability in parent education programs in regard to participant age, hours provided, fidelity of implementation, format of parent education, and type of treatment used. Suggestions are made to provide both a more comprehensive description and consistent measurement of parent education programs.

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