scholarly journals A Pragmatic Analysis of Illocutionary Act in a Selected Presidential Speech on COVID-19

2022 ◽  
Vol 0 (45) ◽  
pp. 84-107
Author(s):  
Rimah Muhy Majeed ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Significant Frequency ◽  
Very Low Frequency ◽  
Illocutionary Acts ◽  
Presidential Speech ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa

This paper aims at studying the illocutionary speech acts: direct and indirect to show the most dominant ones in a presidential speech delivered by the USA president. The speech is about the most critical health issue in the world, COVID-19 outbreak. A descriptive qualitative study was conducted by observing the first speech delivered by president Trump concerning coronavirus outbreak and surveying the illocutionary acts: directive, declarative, commissive, expressive, and representative. Searle's (1985) classification of illocutionary speech acts is adopted in the analysis. What are the main types of the illocutionary speech acts performed by Trump in his speech?; Why does Trump perform illocutionary acts?; and What is the purpose behind using the most dominant acts? The study is of significant value as it displays how the USA's leader addresses his people linguistically using the illocutionary acts. It helps to understand how language is used to deal with certain actions and how it affects the hearers’ viewpoints. The study concludes that two types of illocutionary acts show a significant frequency of occurrence: representatives and declarative. Such result appears due to the purpose behind the discourse under analysis. The other three types of illocutionary acts are of very low frequency. The purpose of the speech and the identity of the figure who delivers it significantly influence the choice of the illocutionary acts. Since the figure who delivers the speech is the president, he has the authority to declare the issue, give instructions concerning the actions that will be taken in the light of this issue and clarify the situation.

scholarly journals A Pragmatic Analysis of Speech Acts Used by English Lecturers in Languange Teaching at STKIP YDB Lubuk Alung

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Siska Okta Widya
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Video Camera ◽  
Classroom Setting ◽  
Coding System ◽  
Illocutionary Acts ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Research Findings

The research was intended to describe types of speech acts performed by English lecturers in learning process at STKIP YDB Lubuk Alung. This research was descriptive qualitative. The data of this research were the English utterances performed by English lecturers. The researcher obtained the data by means of note-taking technique. First, the researcher recorded the English teaching in the class using a video camera. Next, the researcher made transcripts of the dialogues. Then, the transcribed dialogues were recorded into the data sheet. Finally the data were classified according to Searle’s classification of speech acts. In the data analysis the researcher applied interactive qualitative method and applied coding system. The research findings show that there were four types of speech acts performed by the English lecturers, namely representatives, directives, expressive and commissives, whereas declarations were not utilized by the English lecturer. The most frequently used illocutionary acts were directives (53%), while the least frequent illocutionary acts went to commissives (5%). The frequent use of directives indicates that the lecturer seemed to be aware of their status as a lecturer which was believed to be more powerful than her students. In such restricted context like classroom setting, it is common that the lecturer status is higher than her students since the relation between them is inherently asymmetrical. It was through directives the lecturers exerted her power over the students 

Commissive and Expressive Illocutionary Acts in Political Discourse

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Biljana Mišić Ilić ◽  
Milica Radulović
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Explicit Attitudes ◽  
Personal Involvement ◽  
Illocutionary Acts ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Political Speeches

AbstractPolitical discourse is primarily identified as political action, the discourse of deliberating which course of action to follow in accordance with specific political goals (Fairclough and Fairclough 2012: 1). A pragmatic analysis of various sub-genres of political discourse can identify the preference for particular speech acts. The first aim of this paper is to analyze commissive and expressive illocutionary acts in political speeches, as indicators of personal involvement of political speakers, notorious for vagueness and avoiding commitment. A corpus of Serbian, American and British political speeches that address the issue of economic standard of living has been examined to identify commissive illocutionary acts as indicators of politicians’ explicit commitment to a chosen course of action, and expressive illocutionary acts as indicators of politicians’ explicit attitudes to their own or other politicians’ chosen practices. The analysis classifies subtypes of commissives and expressives in the corpus and identifies illocutionary force indicating devices (IFIDs) that constitute them in English and in Serbian, after which the resulting classifications are compared and contrasted. The research results are aimed at explaining the hypothesis that a specific use/lack of commissives and expressives can be the politician’s strategy for adding credibility to their speeches, and in that way, swaying public opinion to serve the politician’s interest; conversely, establishing the relation between the use/lack of these illocutionary acts and the politician’s commitment to actions can be a method for exposing the politician’s lack of credibility and accountability.

Extremely low frequency detection of electrical discharges at Minamidake crater (Sakurajima volcano, Japan)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caron E.J. Vossen ◽  
Corrado Cimarelli ◽  
Alec J. Bennett ◽  
André Geisler ◽  
Damien Gaudin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Frequency ◽  
Japan Meteorological Agency ◽  
Frequency Range ◽  
Electrical Discharges ◽  
Very Low Frequency ◽  
Extremely Low Frequency ◽  
Sakurajima Volcano ◽  
Frequency Detection ◽  
The World ◽  
Active Volcanoes

<p>Volcanoes are increasingly better monitored around the world. Nonetheless, the detection and monitoring of volcanic ash plumes remains difficult, especially in remote areas. Intense electrical activity and lightning in volcanic plumes suggests that electrical monitoring of active volcanoes can aid the detection of ash emissions in near real-time. Current very low frequency and wide-band thunderstorm networks have proven to be able to detect plumes of large magnitude. However, the time delay and the relatively high number of non-detected explosive episodes show that the applicability of these systems to the detection of smaller (and often more frequent) ash-rich explosive events is limited. Here we use a different type of thunderstorm detector to observe electrical discharges generated by the persistent Vulcanian activity of Minamidake crater at Sakurajima volcano in Japan. The sensors consist of two antennas that measure the induced current due to the change in electric field with time. In contrast to the current thunderstorm networks, these sensors measure within the extremely low frequency range (1-45 Hz) and can detect lightning up to 35 kilometres distance.</p><p>Two detectors were installed at a distance of 3 and 4 kilometres from Minamidake crater and recorded almost continuously since July 2018. Within this period, the ash plumes reached a maximum height of 5.5 kilometres above the crater rim. Using a volcanic lightning detection algorithm and the catalogue of volcanic explosions compiled by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the number of electrical discharges was determined for each individual explosive event. In addition, the start of electrical discharges was compared to the eruption onset estimated by the JMA.</p><p>Preliminary results show that the detector closest to the crater had the highest detection efficiency. It detected electrical discharges during 60% of the eruptions listed by the JMA. This is significantly higher than for the World Wide Lightning Location Network, which detected electrical discharges (in the very low frequency range) within 20 kilometres of Sakurajima for less than 0.005% of the eruptions. Furthermore, the results show that for 40% of the detected eruptions, electrical discharges were detected before the estimated JMA timing. Hence, electrical discharges can mark the inception of the explosion with a higher precision and are an indication of ash emission. This demonstrates the value of the cost-effective sensors used here as a monitoring tool at active volcanoes.</p>

Debating With Searle, or What Is a Communicative Act?

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 8-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
М. Черников ◽  
M. Chernikov ◽  
Д. Жучков ◽  
D. Zhuchkov
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Illocutionary Acts ◽  
Communicative Act

The article deals with John R. Searle’s approach to the problem of illocution, including his widely known classification of illocutionary acts. Arguable points and possibilities of resolving them are discussed. A new broader understanding of illocution and speech acts through the prism of modern communication studies is offered.

scholarly journals CLICKBAIT HEADLINES THROUGH THE PRISM OF SPEECH ACTS THEORY

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-36
Author(s):  
I.A. Bitner ◽  
◽  
A.V. Korshunova ◽  
B.O. Luzin ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Main Method ◽  
Direction Of Fit ◽  
Illocutionary Acts ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Point Condition ◽  
Specific Meaning ◽  
Communicative Success ◽  
Video Makers

Statement of the problem. The article discusses the peculiarities of YouTube video clickbait headlines. Some video makers are profit-conscious and deliberately headline their videos using eye-catching words that often have nothing to do with the real content in order to maximize the number of clicking the links. Such headlines aim at deceiving the recipients as for the content of the text or video, affecting their perception, attracting their attention and making them watch the video after all. Such headlines are known as clickbait, for they trap the reader or viewer with deliberately sensational or incomplete information. In this case promotional impact purposefully overrides the nominative function resulting in the peculiarity of the clickbait. The form of speech acts, including stylistic, lexical, syntactical, spelling and punctuation features, makes them stand out of other texts corpus. Particular attention is paid to discerning them as directive illocutionary acts and to proving that they meet all Searle’s requirements for such phenomena including illocutionary point, condition of sincerity, direction of fit. The purpose of the article is to analyze YouTube video clickbait headlines as directive illocutionary acts. Research methodology. The main method of research is qualitative content-analysis that involves revealing a specific meaning expressed with a clickbait headline as a significant element of a media text, as well as a communicative-pragmatic analysis aimed at identifying directive illocutionary force. Research results. Communicative success of clickbait headlines correlates with the “curiosity gap” manifesting itself in recipient’s information lacuna. The recipient should be able to bridge the former to avoid excessive cognitive attempts, clickbait headlines being a tool for that. Conclusions. Clickbait headlines analysis results in identifying them as directive illocutionary acts, for they foreground the perlocutionary function deliberately neglecting nominative one, thus manipulating an information recipient.

scholarly journals On Speech Acts

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-27
Author(s):  
I Dewa Putu Wijana
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Study Research ◽  
Illocutionary Acts ◽  
Research Findings

This paper is intended to give insights to the readers about the development of speech act theories which include categories, characteristics, validities, and strategies. The research begins with the classification of speech acts done by some experts and continues with the description of characteristics and validities carried out especially by Austin and Searle, and ends with speech act strategies developed by Parker and Riley, using examples taken from Indonesian, Javanese, Balinese, and English, four languages that the writer masters relatively well. Most Indonesian, Balinese, and Javanese data together with their context are created intuitively as a native or nearly-native speaker while some English utterances are created and the others extracted from pragmatic textbooks used as references in this study. Research findings show that there are various types of speech acts, and each speech act has its own validity conditions. Among them, illocutionary acts constitute the focal point of pragmatics’ studies. The description shows that every expert of pragmatics uses different categories in classifying illocutionary acts, and the kinds of strategies used to express them.Keywords: pragmatics, speech act, speech act strategy.

«LIGHTED» LONGFELLOW: THE CONCEPT OF LIGHT IN THE CHANGING STYLE

2019 ◽  
pp. 201-210
Author(s):  
Vadim Andreyev
Keyword(s):  
Low Frequency ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Lexical Representation ◽  
Target Domain ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mental Picture ◽  
Romantic Poet ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa

The necessity of the study of different author’s conceptual sphere to obtain more profound knowledge of the issue how the mental picture of the world is realized in speech has become a generally accepted fact in linguistics. In this article the attention is focused on the role, its changes and specific features of the concept Light verbalization in metaphoric system of a famous American romantic poet H. Longfellow. Conclusions are made on the basis of the analysis of the database which includes lyrical poems in the collections published during the author’s life with the total of over 2000 verse lines. The research utilizes the method of analysis of metaphor as a two-member structure which realizes the transfer of features from the source domain (right element of metaphoric model) to the target domain (left element). Longfellow’s literary works are divided into three periods on the basis of biographical data. The first period embraces the beginning of the 1820-s when the young and yet unknown to the public poet published his early works. The second period lasts from 1826 till the beginning of the Civil War in the USA which became the crucial moment in the life and literature of the country. The final period encompasses the remaining part of the poet’s works. The carried out analysis has showed that being one of the most frequent and most productive concepts in the creation of metaphoric models, the concept Light is one of major units of Longfellow’s conceptual sphere. Thus, aesthetic evaluation of Longfellow’s verses as light, which is expressed by a number of critics, to a great extent reflects subconscious perception of the role of the concept Light in the poet’s mental model of the world. Besides, the analysis made it possible to establish a number of facts concerning Longfellow’s individual style which have not been known up to this moment. Longfellow began with the evaluation of light as one of the mysteries and then proceeded to the understanding of light as an intuitively clear phenomenon. This alteration did not affect permanently positive perception of light by the poet and the verbalization of the corresponding concept. From the point of view of lexical representation, the light in the texts by Longfellow possesses positive connotation, it is the source of strength, beauty and hope. Longfellow views Light as a primarily natural source of light. Verbalization of Light in metaphor is explicitly differentiates this concept from the concept Sound which is characterized by low frequency and negative connotation.

1. Past sounds

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Mike Goldsmith
Keyword(s):  
Low Frequency ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
Sound Waves ◽  
Very Low Frequency ◽  
Living Things ◽  
The World ◽  
Sonar Systems ◽  
History Of ◽  
Hearing Evolution ◽  
The Big Bang

‘Past sounds’ provides a history of sound from the origin of sound waves 300,000 years after the Big Bang to the modern day of ultrasound and electroacoustic technology. Primordial sound was of a very low frequency, but powerful and omnipresent, and the environment in which the first living things evolved was an acoustically rich one, profoundly affecting the forms, habits, and destinies of those creatures. Hearing evolution is described along with the human development of music and musical instruments. The Greeks built amphitheatres that dealt with the practicalities of sound and Pythagoras studied harmony on a monochord. The World Wars of the twentieth century accelerated electronics development and inspired underwater acoustic research and sonar systems.

A classification of illocutionary acts

1976 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. Searle
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Illocutionary Force ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Direction Of Fit ◽  
Illocutionary Acts

ABSTRACTThere are at least a dozen linguistically significant dimensions of differences between illocutionary acts. Of these, the most important are illocutionary point, direction of fit, and expressed psychological state. These three form the basis of a taxonomy of the fundamental classes of illocutionary acts. The five basic kinds of illocutionary acts are: representatives (or assertives), directives, commissives, expressives, and declarations. Each of these notions is defined. An earlier attempt at constructing a taxonomy by Austin is defective for several reasons, especially in its lack of clear criteria for distinguishing one kind of illocutionary force from another. Paradigm performative verbs in each of the five categories exhibit different syntactical properties. These are explained. (Speech acts, Austin's taxonomy, functions of speech, implications for ethnography and ethnology; English.)

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