scholarly journals Argumentation as a Speech Act: A (Provisional) Balance

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (63) ◽  
pp. 357-374
Author(s):  
Paolo Labinaz
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Theoretical Terms ◽  
Normative Model ◽  
Illocutionary Acts ◽  
Illocutionary Act

This paper investigates whether, and if so, in what way, argumentation can be profitably described in speech-act theoretical terms. I suggest that the two theories of argumentation that are supposed to provide the most elaborate analysis of it in speech-act theoretical terms (namely van Eemeren and Rob Grootendorst’s Pragma-Dialectics and Lilian Bermejo-Luque’s linguistic normative model of argumentation) both suffer from the same two flaws: firstly, their “illocutionary act pluralism” assumption and secondly, a lack of interest in where arguing belongs in the classification of illocutionary acts. I argue that these flaws derive from the authors’ reliance on an intention-based speech-theoretical framework. Finally, I adopt a deontic framework for speech acts in order to propose an alternative way of accounting for argumentation which seems to overcome the two limitations outlined above. According to this framework, argumentation may be conceived as a speech act sequence, characterized by the conventional effects brought about by the communicative moves (as illocutionary acts) of which it is composed.

scholarly journals SPEECH ACTS ANALYSIS OF DONALD TRUMP’S SPEECH

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Nura Siti Mufiah ◽  
Muhammad Yazid Nur Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Illocutionary Acts ◽  
Illocutionary Act ◽  
Inaugural Speech ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This research deals with the types of illocutionary acts in Donald Trump’s Inaugural Speech. The research concerns with illocutionary act produced by Donald Trumps as a President of American. The aim of this research was to analyze the types of illocutionary speech act which was dominantly used in that speech. This research applied descriptive qualitative method and speech act theory by Yule. There were 63 utterances and the percentage of utterances were Representative 46%, Expressive 11%, Directive 16%, Commissive 12,7%, and Declarative 14,3%. The result showed that Donald Trump assert to the audience about the nation will be.It is found that Trump’s speech acts in his speech are intended as statement of fact and assertion. Disscussion of hopes implied in Trump’s speech acts. As seen on the table above, it can be seen that Trump hoped that his audiences would be persuaded to act 

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.

scholarly journals An Analysis of the Illocutionary Acts on Donald Trump's Presidential Candidacy Speech

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Desinta Larasati ◽  
Arjulayana - Arjulayana ◽  
Cut Novita Srikandi
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Illocutionary Force ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Illocutionary Acts ◽  
Illocutionary Act ◽  
Act One ◽  
Perlocutionary Act

ABSTRACTLearning language will also relate to speech act. When a speaker produce an utterance as well as utilize it to perform an action, it means that the speaker practices speech acts. In another hand, speech acts can be defined as an utterance used by speaker to perform an action. Speech acts are divided into three such as locutionary act, illocutionary act, and perlocutionary act. One of them is illocutionary act. The illocutionary act refers to what someone does in saying something. In this act, illocutionary force is the speaker’s intent addressed to hearer. This research is aimed to find the types of illocutionary acts and identifying about how utterances in the Donald Trump’s speeches are able to be included into certain type of illocutionary acts be based on Searle’s theory. This research is designed in descriptive qualitative. The data is collected by documentation. The primary data are taken from two transcripts of Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy speeches. While the secondary data are related theories obtained from literary books and journals. The procedure of analyzing the data starts by finding out the types of illocutionary acts in the Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy speeches by using the illocutionary acts’ classifications proposed by Searle (1969). After that, the researcher also identifies about the different frequency of illocutionary acts appearances and the dominant illoctionary acts appeared in the Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy speeches. The finding shows that the type of illocutionary acts found in the Donald Trump’s speeches were assertive, commissive, expressive, and directive. Eventhough the types of illocutionary acts found in Donald Trump’s speeches were exactly the same, but they were different in the frequency of appearance. Donald Trump produced mostly assertive type of illocutionary acts and also asserting category of illocutionary type in both of the speeches. Moreover, some utterances are included into assertive type of illocutionary acts due to the fact that they have a suitability with the explanation of assertive type of illocutionary acts proposed by Searle.Keywords: Illocutionary Acts, Speech Acts, Presidential Candidacy Speeches.

scholarly journals Between Statements and Actions: A Speech Act Analysis of President Buhari’s Media Political Discourses

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 948
Author(s):  
Sopuruchi Christian Aboh ◽  
Chris Uchenna Agbedo
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
National Interest ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Illocutionary Acts ◽  
Speech Act Analysis

The study of Buhari’s statements on “jailing of more thieves,” “rule of law should be subjected to national interest,” and “being fair in federal appointments” seem not to have been approached from speech act perspective. As such, this paper analyses the locutionary acts, illocutionary acts, and the perlocutionary effects of Buhari’s statements on the above subject matters. The data were obtained from the online version of Nigerian Dailies. Austin’s speech acts theory serves as the theoretical framework for data analysis. The findings of the study reveal that Buhari’s statement on “jailing of more thieves” is based on fact that he has already jailed some high-profile Nigerians since he was elected as the President of Nigeria. The findings of the study reveal the locutionary and illocutionary acts of Buhari’s statements. The study also shows how Buhari’s statements abided by or flouted Austinian felicity conditions. The perlocutionary effects of the statements were also identified.

scholarly journals ILLOCUTIONARY AND PERLOCUTIONARY ACTS IN THE NOVEL "THE BOOK OF LOST THINGS" BY JHON CONNOLY

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 206
Author(s):  
Firman Setiawan ◽  
Soenardjati Djajanegara
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Illocutionary Acts ◽  
Illocutionary Act ◽  
Perlocutionary Act

<p>Abstract: Illocutionary act is an important part in order to understand the speech acts. It is related to the speaker’s intention in the conversation, and it can be seen from the utterances. In contrast, Perlocutionary act is the effect of the utterance which the speaker said to the hearer. This act does not consist of certain things in certain ways, but it is having certain effects. The literary works of concern for this study is The Book of Lost Things novel. The purpose of this paper is to describe the Illocutionary and Perlocutionary acts employed by the characters in the novel. The finding of this study indicates that the characters in The Book of Lost Things employed all types of Illocutionary acts and responding to that using Perlocutionary acts. It can be concluded that the used of Illocutionary and Perlocutionary acts can be found in this novel.</p><p>Key Words: illocutionary act; perlocutionary act; speech act; the book of lost things.</p>

scholarly journals Speech Acts of Pangeuyeuks in Ngeuyeuk Seureuh Ceremony

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-48
Author(s):  
Euis Kurniasih
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Direct Speech ◽  
Indirect Speech ◽  
Illocutionary Acts ◽  
Illocutionary Act ◽  
Indirect Speech Acts ◽  
Distributional Method ◽  
Directive Speech Acts ◽  
Directive Speech

Pangeuyeuks as the guide in Ngeuyeuk Seureuh ceremony has an important role to explain the marriage values through symbols to prospective bride and groom. This article describes speech acts used by pangeuyeuks in Ngeuyeuk Seureuh ceremony. Descriptive qualitative and distributional method was applied in doing the analysis of data. The speech acts were analyzed by the theory of illocutionary act to find the function of speech act, syntactic types of sentences to find the form of speech acts, and relationship between the function and form of speech acts to find the directness and indirectness of speech acts. The result shows that the illocutionary acts of pangeuyeuks classified into four types: assertives, directives, commissives and expressives, while the sytanctic types of sentences consist of declarative, interrogative, imperative and exclamatory. The direct speech acts are embodied in assertives, directives, commissives and expressives, wheareas the indirect speech acts are embodied in directive speech acts. The embodiment of the speech acts used by pangeuyeuks reflects special norms of interaction based on Sundanese local genius.

scholarly journals An Analysis Of Speech Act In The Grown Ups Movie

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-28
Author(s):  
Lida Marbun ◽  
Nurma Handayani
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Illocutionary Acts ◽  
Illocutionary Act ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Observation Method ◽  
Perlocutionary Act ◽  
Descriptive Method

This research discussed about the analysis of speech act used in the Grown Ups movie. This research revealed the types of speech act that found in the Grown Ups during the movie. The researcher applied the qualitative descriptive method because it was dealt with the description analysis by using words. Observation method used to collect the data. The researcher chose this movie because it was popular in the 20’s century and there were many speech acts reflected in this movie. As the result, it was found that were 30 utterances of speech acts in Grown Ups movie. From the 30 data that researcher collected, the main characters most expressed the types of speech act. They are 6 locutionary acts, 15 illocutionary acts, and 9 perlocutionary. Based all the data above, it can be concluded the most used speech act found in this data was illocutionary act. The next was perlocutionary act. Then the last was locutionary act.

scholarly journals COMMUNICATIVE ILLOCUTIONARY ACT ON STUDENTS’ CONVERSATION VIDEO IN ONE OF THE ENGLISH COURSES IN BANDUNG

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 305
Author(s):  
Mu’man Mu’man
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Research Result ◽  
Research Purpose ◽  
Central Concept ◽  
Illocutionary Acts ◽  
Illocutionary Act ◽  
Definition Of

Speech acts are divided into three categories – locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary. Each speech act can be investigated based on the researcher’s need what it is done in this research purpose of this study aiming to find out the context meaning of communicative illocutionary act categories on students’ conversation video. The spirit of the speech act can be called as illocutionary which becomes a central concept. Regarding to the definition of speech acts, several numerous options related to illocutionary have some kinds of acts such as promising, ordering, and bequeathing. This research uses Austin’s book as a grant theory strengthened by Yule. This research result is the researcher has found communicative illocutionary acts on students’ conversation video including constatives, directives, commissives, and acknowledgments.Keywords: Illocutionary, constative, directives, commissives, acknowledgments

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF ILLOCUTIONARY ACT IN THE MOVIE “YOU ARE MY HOME” ENGLISH SUBTITLE

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-36
Author(s):  
Friska Sari Luksiana Hutajulu ◽  
Herman Herman
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Quantitative Approach ◽  
Intended Meaning ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
What Is Said ◽  
Illocutionary Acts ◽  
Illocutionary Act ◽  
Perlocutionary Act

An utterance to explain how speaker use language to accomplish intended actions and how the hearers infer intended meaning from what is said called as a speech acts. The study of speech act is very important for us because it can make us comprehend what message that discovered in every utterance. According to Austin (1962) suggests that in uttering a sentence, a speaker is generally involved in three level of speech acts, they are locutionary act, illocutionary act, and perlocutionary act. But for this occasion, this research focuses in analyzing  Illocutionary Act in the movie “you’re my home” that presented by Evim Sensin. This research used the combination between qualitative and quantitative approach. The research problem will be discussed are: First, What types of Illocutionary acts are found in “You are my home” movie English subtitle? Second, what is the most dominant types of Illocutionary acts used in “You are my home” movie English subtitle? Finally, the purposes of this research are to find out the types of Illocutionary acts and to analyze the most dominant Illocutionary acts produced in “You are my home” movie English subtitle.

scholarly journals Illocution and accommodation in the functioning of presumptions

Synthese ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maciej Witek
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Burden Of Proof ◽  
The State ◽  
Direct Mechanism ◽  
Illocutionary Acts ◽  
Illocutionary Act ◽  
Back Door ◽  
Normative Status

Abstract In this paper, I develop a speech-act based account of presumptions. Using a score-keeping model of illocutionary games, I argue that presumptions construed as speech acts can be grouped into three illocutionary act types defined by reference to how they affect the state of a conversation. The paper is organized into two parts. In the first one, I present the score-keeping model of speech act dynamics; in particular, I distinguish between two types of mechanisms—the direct mechanism of illocution and the indirect one of accommodation—that underlie the functioning of illocutionary acts. In the second part, I use the presented model to distinguish between (1) the unilateral act of individual presumption, the point of which is to shift the burden of proof by making the hearer committed to justifying his refusal to endorse the proposition communicated by the speaker, whenever he refuses to endorse it, (2) the bilateral act of joint presumption—‘bilateral’ in that it is performed jointly by at least two conversing agents—the function of which is to confer on the proposition endorsed by the speaker the normative status of jointly recognized though tentative acceptability, and (3) the indirect or back-door act of collective presumption, the purpose of which is to sustain rules and practices to which the conversing agents defer the felicity of their conversational moves.

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