scholarly journals Commissive Pragmatics of Elucidative Speech Acts in Modern English

2018 ◽  
pp. 34-38
Author(s):  
M. Stasiv
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Mental Activity ◽  
Speech Activity ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Practical Analysis ◽  
British National Corpus ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
National Corpus

Despite a number of studies that deal with the construction of the communicative-and-pragmatic system of the utterances-commissives of different types, today the English elucidative utterances of commissive type and their differentiation into the communicative-and-pragmatic subtypes remain poorly studies and require a thorough analysis at the communicative-and-pragmatic level of their actualization, which explains the relevance of this research. Moreover, the relevance of this issue has been caused by the necessity to clarify the specificity of formation of the commissive speech act in the structure of the analyzed utterance. The object of the study is the English elucidative utterances-commissives. The purpose of this article is to reveal the communicative-and-pragmatic organization of these commissive utterances-acts. The utterances with the key predicates of mental activity, selected from the British National Corpus texts, served as the material of the study. The intent-analysis has been applied for revealing the communicative-and-pragmatic peculiarities of the elucidative utterance of commissive type. The latter has been conducted at different levels – from the pragmemic structure of the key illocutionary predicate to the communicative-and-pragmatic organization of the entire utterance-commissive. This in turn has facilitated the revealing of the micropragmatic and pragmatic parameters of the object of the study. On the basis of the theoretical and practical analysis results the elucidative utterance-commissive is considered as a communicative-and-pragmatic unit of the speech activity aimed at the speaker’s obligative intention realization in the communicative situation of interaction. The results of the study also prove that the commissive pragmatics of the analyzed type of the utterance has been predetermined by the key commissiveness in its principal clause, and its subordinate clause only supplements, specifies it. The key commissiveness of the utterance has been expressed with the key illocutionary predicate in the affirmative form. The latter plays a crucial role in the revealing its commissive pragmatics and the developing an extended communicative-and-pragmatic typology of the elucidative utterances-commissives.

scholarly journals Ideologie, ‘egte’ norme en literêre taalhandelinge

Literator ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 37-54
Author(s):  
M. Rossouw
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
South African ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
African Community ◽  
Ethical Norms ◽  
Different Levels

For many years text-immanent approaches to literature have dominated the scene of Afrikaans literary criticism. This article adds a voice to the ‘spontaneous' discourse in which ethical norms (especially socio-political guidelines), too, come into play when a literary text is studied. Since the context in which a text is written and read is of great importance in such an approach, speech act theory is used in order to determine the intentions (illocutions) of the writer in the texts, as well as the reactions (perlocutions) of readers to the text. The purpose of this is mainly to establish whether critique of ideology manifests itself in speech acts directed towards freedom and dignity for all people. On the other hand there may also be signs of unconscious ideological illocutions in the contradictions which occur within or between the different levels of communication (macro, meso and micro). These contradictions are related to socio-political contradictions which are repressed within the South African community. In order to illustrate this kind of approach, three novels of Etienne van Heerden are discussed, viz. Om te awol (1984), Toorberg (1986) and Casspirs en Campari's (1991).

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 Context-Based Interpretation of Subordinating Conjunctions in Communication

Languages ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Aziz Thabit Saeed ◽  
Saleh Al-Salman
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Interactive Communication ◽  
Adequate Knowledge ◽  
British National Corpus ◽  
Syntactic Constraints ◽  
Lexical Density ◽  
National Corpus

While acknowledging that different conjunctions define different relationships between ideas, this study focuses on the interpretation of four subordinating conjunctions, namely, because, since, for and as in causal clauses. Since the meanings of these conjunctions vary according to context, among other things, they usually pose problems to language users leading to misinterpretations. Not only does this emerge from the fine and minute distinctions in usage between them, but also due to the lack of adequate knowledge of the rules of language use in their metatheoretical framework. This kind of knowledge is crucial in interactive communication, speech acts, pragmatics, logical arguments and multidisciplinary debates. The data for this study were compiled from grammar books, articles, and from the British National Corpus (BNC). The data were analyzed not only to identify the discrete features of each conjunction that would render it different from its synonymous counterparts, but also to understand the kind of knowledge required to determine the choice. The findings of the study reveal that, in addition to the syntactic constraints, the degree of the ‘givenness’ or ‘newness’ of the information that the conjunction introduces, context, degree of formality of the register, and lexical density of the utterance that contains the conjunctions emerged to play a role.

scholarly journals Discourse Approach to Teaching Language and Communication Skills

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (2 (9)) ◽  
pp. 111-116
Author(s):  
Gohar Hovsepyan
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Teaching Language ◽  
Linguistic Patterns ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Sociocultural Background ◽  
The Given ◽  
Different Levels

The successful realization of speech acts is a challenge which supposes general sociocultural background knowledge about the types of speech acts and strategies that are applicable under certain circumstances and the appropriateness and relevance of the given speech act, etc. However, the necessity of such a comprehensive approach is not always understood and accepted in the process of teaching speech acts. There is a primitive tendency to identify speech acts with certain linguistic patterns. The investigation shows that discourse analysis can provide valuable material for efficient language teaching at different levels and in various spheres in courses of grammar, vocabulary, communication strategies, intercultural communication and socio-linguistics.

Clause Types and Speech Act Functions

2019 ◽  
pp. 374-395
Author(s):  
Ekkehard König
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
Illocutionary Acts ◽  
Basic Meaning ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Germanic Languages ◽  
The Relationship

The differentiation of clause types in this chapter (declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamative) is primarily based on morpho-syntactic criteria, but is also motivated by the use of these types for the performance of speech acts, i.e. acts resulting in a change of social situations. Instead of relating the different types directly to a list of speech acts typically performed by them, an attempt is made to characterize their illocutionary potential in terms of a basic meaning. On the basis of this approach the subtypes of the functional clause types and their possible use in specific contexts are characterized in detail. This systematization of the relationship between clause type and possible illocutionary acts is additionally based on the well-known distinction between ‘direct’ and ‘indirect(ly performed)’ speech acts. The chapter concludes with some comparative remarks characterizing the specific properties of English within the Germanic languages family and within a general typology of clause types.

Research Methods in Interlanguage Pragmatics

1991 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriele Kasper ◽  
Merete Dahl
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Nonnative Speakers ◽  
Interlanguage Pragmatics ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Linguistic Action

The article reviews the methods of data collection employed in 39 studies of interlanguage pragmatics, defined narrowly as the investigation of nonnative speakers' comprehension and production of speech acts, and the acquisition of L2-related speech act knowledge. Data collection instruments are distinguished according to the degree to which they constrain informants' responses, and whether they tap speech act perception/comprehension or production. A main focus of discussion is the validity of different types of data, in particular, their adequacy to approximate authentic performance of linguistic action.

Occasional Speech Acts

2021 ◽  
pp. 16-21
Author(s):  
N. Korobkina
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Pragmatic Approach ◽  
Component Structure ◽  
Speech Activity ◽  
Speech Generation ◽  
Over Time

Speech acts are considered as minimal units of speech activity and as a three-component structure consisting of ilocution, locution and perlocution. Varieties of speech acts are distinguished depending on a statement illocutionary purpose: assertives, commissives, directives, expressives, declarations (according to J. Searle). The possibility of these speech acts occasional nature is emphasized. A speech act occasionality is achieved by using a nomination in a corresponding communicative situation. This nomination has novelty over time and outside the conditions of its speech generation, the absence of a wide (frequency) situational functioning, created on occasion, often with an author’s intention. Specific examples of communicative situations containing a kind of an occasional speech act are given. It is noted that occasional speech acts are a key point in the study of a pragmatic approach to language phenomena, when a producer intensity – to produce a certain speech action – comes to the fore.

scholarly journals Categorizing expressive speech acts in the pragmatically annotated SPICE Ireland corpus

ICAME Journal ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Ronan
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Classroom Discussion ◽  
Expressive Speech ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Corpus Data ◽  
Different Levels

Abstract Expressive speech acts are one of the five basic categories of speech acts identified by Searle (1976). Expressives remain underresearched, though select categories of expressive speech acts, especially offering thanks and compliments, have received more extensive attention. An overall classification of expressive speech acts on the basis of corpus data has not yet been carried out. The current study provides a first survey of different types of expressive speech acts on the basis of three categories of spoken Irish English of different levels of formality: broadcast discussion, classroom discussion and face-to-face interaction. The data are extracted from the pragmatically tagged SPICE-Ireland corpus, a member of the International Corpus of English-family of corpora. The aim of the current study is to offer an overview and classification of expressives in the corpus material. Eight distinct subcategories of expressive speech acts are identified in this study. These categories are agreement, disagreement, volition, offering thanks, apologies, exclamations, expressions of sorrow and greetings.

scholarly journals Tindak Tutur Ilokusi di Pondok Modern Selamat Kendal

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-139
Author(s):  
Arunika Harum Prahastiwi ◽  
Haryadi Haryadi ◽  
Imam Baehaqie
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Expressive Speech ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Illocutionary Acts ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Methodological Approaches

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mendiskripsikan jenis dan mengidentifikasi fungsi tindak tutur ilokusi yang diucapkan warga pondok yang ada di pondok. Pendekatan yang digunakan ada dua, pendekatan teoretis dan pendekatan metodologis. Data dalam penelitian berupa penggalan wacana percakapan saat melaksanakan kegiatan sehari-hari. Hasil penelitian ini berbagai jenis dan fungsi tindak ilokusi yaitu (1) jenis tuturan ilokusi dalam tuturan warga pondok terdiri atas lima macam yaitu tuturan ilokusi asertif yaitu mengeluh, menyarankan, mengakui, dan menyatakan; tuturan ilokusi direktif yaitu menyuruh, mengajak, dan memesan; tuturan ilokusi ekspresif yaitu memberi selamat, berterima kasih, dan memuji; tuturan ilokusi deklarsi yaitu menghukum, berpasrah, dan mengizinkan; tuturan ilokusi komisif yaitu berjanji, dan menawarkan.;(2) fungsi dari tindak tutur ilokusi terdiri atas empat macam yaitu fungsi bersaing memerintah, meminta, dan menuntut; fungsi menyenangkan mengajak, menyapa, mengucapkan, terima kasih, dan memberi selamat, fungsi bekerja sama melaporkan, dan mengumumkan; fungsi bertentangan yaitu memarahi. The purpose of this research is to describe the type and identify the function of illocutionary speech acts are spoken by female students in a modern cottage survived Kendal. The approach used in this study there are two theoretical approaches and methodological approaches. The data in this study a discourse fragment of conversation when carrying out daily activities. The results of this study show the different types and functions of illocutionary acts: (1) type speech illocutionary in residents of the cottage. speech consists of five kinds of assertive illocutionary speech that complain, suggest, recognize, and states. Directive illocutionary speech that is sent, inviting, and ordering. Illocutionary expressive speech that congratulated, thanked and praised him. Illocutionary speech deklarsi ie punish, surrender and allow. Illocutionary speech commissive that promise, hang out and menawaarkan; (2) the function of illocutionary speech act consists of four kinds of functions compete among others ruled, asking and demanding. The function fun among others invited, say hello, say, thank you, and congratulations. Functions work together among others, report, and announced. Conflicting functions is scolding

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