scholarly journals Contrast and Critique of Two Approaches to Discourse Analysis: Conversation Analysis and Speech Act Theory

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory

Speech acts and conversational sequencing

1994 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Brassac
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Conversational Analysis ◽  
Conversational Interactions ◽  
The One

The question of the use of speech act theory in accounting for conversational sequencing is discussed from the point of view of the explanation of linguistic interaction. On the one hand, this question lies at the heart of the opposition between conversational analysis and discourse analysis. On the other, it dominates the discussion around a text by Searle called "Conversation". After summarizing what is at stake in the debate, I focus on the positions of two authors, Dascal and Van Rees, who favor the idea of a possible (and necessary) combination of illocutionary logic and the analysis of conversational interactions. My own position consists in taking into account the new elements that have recently enriched illocutionary logic (particularly the integration of perlocution through the notion of satisfaction conditions) within the framework of an essentially dialogical position. The proposed approach is in agreement with the theses of these two authors and complements them with elements that satisfy their demands.

scholarly journals A CLOSER LOOK ON DISCOURSE ANALYSIS BY USING SPEECH ACT THEORY AND HALLIDAYAN COHESION

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Nabila Firda Asy'ari
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Spoken Discourse

This paper will describe and look out what actually speech act theory and Hallidayan cohesion in order to analyze a discourse. Here, the main point that we want to analyze is the spoken discourse. We will open up what happens if we use speech act theory to analyze a discourse and what will happen if we use Hallidayan cohesion in order to analyze a discourse. We will know which one of these are the best or suitable to apply while analyzing a discourse. Is it speech act theory or Hallidayan cohesion? Then, in conclusion, we will also know why speech act theory is the best approach to analyze a discourse, especially spoken discourse.

scholarly journals Discourse Analysis from the Perspective of Austin’s Speech Act Theory and Searle’s Taxonomy of Illocutionary Acts: A Case Study of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 198-203
Author(s):  
Andreea-Veridiana Farcasel-Jensen ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Power Relationship ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Illocutionary Acts ◽  
The Yellow Wallpaper ◽  
Short Narrative

A focus on discourse analysis, this study presents a particular interest in the power relationship artfully constructed by Charlotte P. Gilman in three dialogue instances in her most memorable short narrative, The Yellow Wallpaper. With the awareness of gender differences in mind in terms of how men and women use language, Gilman evinces the ways in which language could be a medium of silencing the other. Consequently, this paper carefully examines the protagonists’ discourses through J. L. Austin’s speech act theory and John Searle’s taxonomy of illocutionary acts. The corpus of the study consists of the utterances of the husband/doctor and of the wife/patient, and both the quantitative and qualitative research methods have been employed for the data analysis. The results have shown that the patriarchal discourse, originally dominated by representatives (opinions, facts) and directives (commands, orders, advices, and refusals), produces utterances meant to fabricate reality (erroneous diagnosis) and generate refusals, whereas the discourse of the other consists mainly of representatives- true statements and opinions -which contradict men’s reality in the journey to achieving self-assertion and selfexpression.

scholarly journals Some Linguistic Implications of Transferring Rituals Online: The Case of bay’ah or Allegiance Pledging in Sufism

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 382-407
Author(s):  
Andrey Rosowsky
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Linguistic Change ◽  
Language Form ◽  
Multimodal Discourse Analysis ◽  
Multimodal Discourse ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Linguistic Challenges

Within the growing body of research devoted to exploring digital religion (Campbell, 2013), relatively little attention has been paid to the linguistic implications of religion moving online. In a study focusing on the online ritual of bay’ah, or allegiance pledging, in Sufism, this article presents findings that identify instances of language form and practice being modified and transformed when ritual moves online. Two aspects of linguistic change are considered. The first explores how an offline, predominantly orally based ritual transfers to a predominantly visual and written mode of communication online. The second considers how ritual performativity is maintained, modified or reduced as a consequence of this transfer. Using a combination of multimodal discourse analysis and speech act theory, an analysis of the findings suggests that a variety of approaches are used by designers of online ritual portals to address these linguistic challenges.

scholarly journals A Case Study on Characters in Pride and Prejudice: From Perspectives of Speech Act Theory and Conversational Implicature

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 136
Author(s):  
Xiaoyu Ma
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Conversational Implicature ◽  
The Enlightenment

<p>Speech act theory and conversational implicature, as research approaches in discourse analysis (DA), have been applied successfully to investigations in such fields as philosophy, linguistics, psychology and literature criticism. This paper aims to employ a synthesized model of these two theories to make a tentative study of the “literature language” and the characters in the literary work—<em>Pride and Prejudice</em>—to testify whether these research methods contribute to the readers’ understanding and appreciation of this masterpiece. The results of the study show that, to a certain extent, the image of the characters in a particular context in this literary work has been successfully demonstrated in terms of these two approaches in DA and it has been proved that “literature language” can be analyzed by means of DA theories. In addition, the study may contribute to the enlightenment of effective and creative approaches in literature as well as college movie English audio-visual-oral course teaching.</p>

scholarly journals The Ways Of Expressing Condolences Implicitly And Their Effect On Sociolinguistics.

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1099-1103
Author(s):  
Akobirova Sarvar Tuevna, Et. al.
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Expressive Speech ◽  
Register Variation ◽  
Sociology Of Language ◽  
Linguistic Means ◽  
Learning English

The article considers condolence as a form of English speech etiquette, analyzed as an expressive speech act. The relevance of teaching speech etiquette in a situation of condolence lies in the fact that the effectiveness of learning English increases in the conditions of modeling a real communicative situation. Linguistic means of speech act expression are considered. It introduces sociolinguistics by means of five areas of research: quantitative sociolinguistics, conversation analysis, register variation, discourse analysis, and the sociology of language.

Formal ontology for discourse analysis of a corpus of court interpreting

Babel ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 594-618
Author(s):  
Adam Pease ◽  
Jennifer Cheung Pease ◽  
Andrew K. F. Cheung
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Order Logic ◽  
New Method ◽  
Formal Ontology ◽  
Higher Order Logic ◽  
Semantic Relationships ◽  
Court Interpreting

Abstract We develop a new method of discourse analysis using speech act theory and formal ontology. The method constitutes an attempt to make discourse analysis more formal and repeatable. We apply the method to a corpus of bi-lingual, interpreted legal dialogue, focusing on the speech act of clarification and its component acts. While discourse analysis is primarily a qualitative tool, it can be applied quantitatively by counting certain types of discourse, such as clarification speech acts. Dialogues are still analysed, utterances are classified as speech acts and their semantic relationships are qualitatively assessed. Subjectivity of human analysis is minimised using a new method of discourse analysis that employs a formal ontology. The ontology is stated in higher-order logic making the annotation of the corpus more objective, formal and repeatable than prior research.

scholarly journals COMPARATIVE STUDY ON DISCOURSE ANALYSIS BASED ON SCHOOL’S SLOGAN

JURNAL TAHURI ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-54
Author(s):  
Djainal Yulina Tiwery
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Expressive Meaning ◽  
Bahasa Indonesia ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

The research was aimed to describe and to analyze the meanings of each slogan used in schools. To conduct the research, the researchers used descriptive qualitative method. The subjects of this research were the slogans from 4 different schools were SMP 19, SMK 2, SMK 6 and SMK 7 in Ambon city. The data was taken in the form of phrase, clause and sentence. In collecting the data, the researchers used a documentation technique by taking the pictures of the schools’ slogans from those schools above. To analyze the meaning of each slogan, the researchers used pragmatic analysis especially speech act theory. The result showed that there were 5 types of slogan which applied into 14 slogans. From the total number of schools’ slogans, 7 slogans were written in English and 7 slogans too were written in Bahasa Indonesia. 5 slogans contained representative meaning, 5 slogans contained directive meaning, 2 slogans contained commissive meaning, 1 slogan contained expressive meaning and 1 last slogan contained declarative meaning. Types of slogan that most used in the schools were representative and directive meanings

scholarly journals THE WAYS OF EXPRESSING CONDOLENCES IMPLICITLY AND THEIR EFFECT ON SOCIOLINGUISTICS

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 2879-2884
Author(s):  
Akobirova Sarvar Tuevna, Rasulmukhamedova Umida Alisherovna
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Expressive Speech ◽  
Register Variation ◽  
Sociology Of Language ◽  
Linguistic Means ◽  
Learning English

The article considers condolence as a form of English speech etiquette, analyzed as an expressive speech act. The relevance of teaching speech etiquette in a situation of condolence lies in the fact that the effectiveness of learning English increases in the conditions of modeling a real communicative situation. Linguistic means of speech act expression are considered. It introduces sociolinguistics by means of five areas of research: quantitative sociolinguistics, conversation analysis, register variation, discourse analysis, and the sociology of language.

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