scholarly journals “Please Don’t Come Back”: A Pragmatic Study of Chinese Netizens’ Complaints Under Pandemic of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (11) ◽  
pp. 106-110
Author(s):  
Xin Xie ◽  
Yaqi Liu ◽  
Deeana Kasa
Keyword(s):  
Speech Act ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Chinese Speakers ◽  
Short Video ◽  
Felicity Condition ◽  
Pragmatic Study

This article aims to analyze Chinese netizens’ speech act of complaints under pandemic of COVID-19 by Searl’s felicity condition of speech act (1969) and discuss with politeness theories. Researchers collected data from the comment area of a short video on Douyin in September 2021. The result shows that there are 11 strategies employed to complain about the returnees, namely Suggestion, Statement, Order, Irony, Expectation, Expressing negative emotions, Request, Criticism, Asking for reasons, Calling for empathy, and Exclaiming strategies according to the order of most to least. In uneasy situations, Chinese speakers still try to employ polite strategies to express their dissatisfaction, however, they may threaten listeners’ “face” inevitably.

scholarly journals The Pragmatic Study of Speech Act Analysis in Discussion Activities on Speaking Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-72
Author(s):  
Widiastuti Muchsin
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Class Discussion ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Speech Act Analysis ◽  
Perlocutionary Act ◽  
Pragmatic Study ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

The research problems of this research is what are the types and functions of speech acts that appear in discussion activities on speaking learning of 3rd semester students of Polytechnic ATI Makassar. The methods in this research is a descriptive qualitative method. The subject of this research is the 3rd semester Politechnic ATI Makassar students in class discussion activities. The results of the study can be described as follows. There are several types of speech acts found. Based on the action objectives of the speaker's perspective, Locutionary act, Illocution act, and perlocutionary act are found. Locutionary speech acts include news, questions and orders. Illocutionary speech acts include assertive, directive, expressive, commissive and declarative illocution

scholarly journals Disagreeing in Tunisian Arabic: a Politeness and Pragmatic Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 46-64
Author(s):  
Hassen Khammari
Keyword(s):  
Social Distance ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Completion Test ◽  
Tunisian Arabic ◽  
New Strategies ◽  
Identification And Quantification ◽  
Pragmatic Study

This research is a pragmatic and politeness study that deals with the speech act of disagreement in Tunisian Arabic, a variety of Arabic spoken in Tunisia. It accounts for disagreement in relation to the contextual factors of Social Distance, Social Power, and Rank of Imposition. Discourse Completion Test (DCT) is used to study the production of disagreement. Data was collected from a group of native speakers of Tunisian Arabic at “Institut Supérieur des Langues de Tunis, Tunisia”. Native speakers of TA used a variety of strategies, which were identified in other languages (e.g., Direct Refusal, Suggestion, Giving Account, and Request…) along with new strategies (e.g., Teasing, Unsympathetic advice, Challenge, and Criticism).The identification and quantification of the strategies of disagreement also helped develop insights into the Tunisian culture.  

scholarly journals Comparing the Meaning Potential in Shakespeare and Manto through Speech Acts: A Discourse Pragmatic Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 587-600
Author(s):  
Tazanfal Tehseem ◽  
Muazzma Batool ◽  
Aqsa Arshad ◽  
Zohaib Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
John Searle ◽  
Meaning Potential ◽  
Inner Self ◽  
Pragmatic Study

This paper attempts to explain the application of speech act theory (John Searle, 1976) on the soliloquies expressed by Hamlet and Keshulal Singh. The descriptive focus of this study is to draw attention to the felicity conditions whether they are being fulfilled by the speakers while making an utterance or not. Content analysis based on speech act theory is used for this paper. It has been pointed out that declaratives are less while directives are more applicable on these soliloquies, with the help of analysis. Hamlet and Keshulal’s inner self is being depicted through their speeches and it is analyzed that they are so much upset and are in the situation of to be or not to be that they do not know what should be their strategies, in taking their revenge. In actuality, they are trying to extinguish the storm which is bursting inside them through their soliloquies but by comparing the inner devastation of both characters. It is highlighted that Hamlet’s soliloquies are more self-explanatory than that of Keshulal because Hamlet makes vows, questions, deplores, and challenges the circumstances more than the Keshulal.

scholarly journals The compliment as a speech act in Russian: A lexical-pragmatic study

2018 ◽  
pp. 49-67
Author(s):  
Ewa Komorowska ◽  
Anna Ohrimovich
Keyword(s):  
Speech Act ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Linguistic Communication ◽  
Pragmatic Study

The aim of the paper is to identify the linguistic exponents of Russian compliments. The examples which will be analyzed come from contemporary Russian. We will consider direct and indirect compliments, paying attention to such phenomena as presupposition and implicature as well as to the pragmatic functions of utterances. An analysis of communication strategies will allow us to present the specific features and role of compliments in linguistic communication in Russia.

scholarly journals Does the politeness of speech acts of teachers have a relationship with Indonesian Language and Literature Learning in Schools?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherly Silvia Hardian
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
Written Form ◽  
Speech Events ◽  
Pragmatic Study

Language is one of the tools used by humans to convey ideas, ideas, and thoughts in oral and written form. Language is also used to communicate with other people. This is because in language each person has the freedom to use the choice of words that contain the meaning of something, so that the intent can be conveyed to others. In speech events there are speech acts. Speech act or speech act is the object of pragmatic study. In other words, all aspects related to language are speech acts.

scholarly journals The positivity principle: do positive instructors improve learning from video lectures?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alyssa P. Lawson ◽  
Richard E. Mayer ◽  
Nicoletta Adamo-Villani ◽  
Bedrich Benes ◽  
Xingyu Lei ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Eye Gaze ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Body Movement ◽  
Instructional Video ◽  
Test Experiment ◽  
Video Lecture ◽  
Video Lectures ◽  
Short Video ◽  
E Learning

AbstractThe positivity principle states that people learn better from instructors who display positive emotions rather than negative emotions. In two experiments, students viewed a short video lecture on a statistics topic in which an instructor stood next to a series of slides as she lectured and then they took either an immediate test (Experiment 1) or a delayed test (Experiment 2). In a between-subjects design, students saw an instructor who used her voice, body movement, gesture, facial expression, and eye gaze to display one of four emotions while lecturing: happy (positive/active), content (positive/passive), frustrated (negative/active), or bored (negative/passive). First, learners were able to recognize the emotional tone of the instructor in an instructional video lecture, particularly by more strongly rating a positive instructor as displaying positive emotions and a negative instructor as displaying negative emotions (in Experiments 1 and 2). Second, concerning building a social connection during learning, learners rated a positive instructor as more likely to facilitate learning, more credible, and more engaging than a negative instructor (in Experiments 1 and 2). Third, concerning cognitive engagement during learning, learners reported paying more attention during learning for a positive instructor than a negative instructor (in Experiments 1 and 2). Finally, concerning learning outcome, learners who had a positive instructor scored higher than learners who had a negative instructor on a delayed posttest (Experiment 2) but not an immediate posttest (Experiment 1). Overall, there is evidence for the positivity principle and the cognitive-affective model of e-learning from which it is derived.

A Socio-pragmatic study of the swear and the oath in Shakespeare's "Othello"

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Brain Research ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Human Science ◽  
New Order ◽  
Sentence Meaning ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Basic Standards ◽  
Pragmatic Study

“Never swear even if you are righteous” is an inherent statement that reflects the psychological, sociological, as well as structural characteristics of swearing and oath making in the individual’s life. This paper tries to present an introduction to the speech act of swearing and oath making. Pragmatics is a moderately new order whose nature of request crosses with that of various other sociologies, like phonetics, applied etymology, basic talk examination, semantics, sociolinguistics, human science, brain research and humanities. Pragmatics does not have its procedure; however, it draws upon the system utilized in other sociologies. As the field of pragmatics is expansive and covers an assortment of strands, from the investigation of contextualized sentence meaning to the investigation of significance in the manner by which information is gathered and examined relies upon the sober-minded viewpoint received by the specialist, just as on the object of study. This paper has zeroed in on socio-pragmatics as its approach to handling the selected subject; to be specific, on the investigation of the basic standards of speaker and listener significance as reflected in the (fitting) acknowledgement of discourse acts, the association of discussion, affableness appearances and socio-pragmatic variety. It hypothesizes that swearing, oaths are deeds that are socially influenced, and so that they should, socio- pragmatically studied. It aims to show the socio-pragmatics insight of the use of swearing and oaths by answering the raised questions. The questions are as follows; Do swearing and oaths have significance in “Othello”? Do Swearing and oaths differ from one person to another? Does the position of the individual influence the swearing and the oaths of the person? Does sex affect the use of swearing and oaths? The paper is limited to Shakespeare’s “Othello” as a text that has many reflections for the use of swears and oaths. It ends with a conclusion that sums up the results of the discussion.

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