Expressive Illocutionary Act in The Little Mermaid 1989 Movie

Illocutionary Act Based Translation of Dialogues

A new dialogue translation method called the illocutionary act translation method is designed for translating speakers' intentions conveyed by rich expressions in dialogues between humans. One of the most significant characteristics of this method is that it is pragmaticsbased. That is, translation of utterances representing illocutionary acts, which consist of illocutionary forces and proposit...

A schema for illocutionary act identification with prosodic feature

We propose a new discrimination schema for illocutionary acts using prosodic features based on experimental results.We performed a series of experiments in which subjects were asked to identify the sentence type and intonation contour of given stimuli. Given the transcribed sentence with contextual information, the subjects were able to identify correctly the sentence type of 85% of 290 sentenc...

Discourse Structures of Condolence Speech Act

Condolence is part of Austin’s expressive speech act and is related to Searle’s behabitives illocutionary act. Although a theoretically sound issue in pragmatics, condolence speech act has not been investigated as much as other speech acts in discourse-related studies. This paper aims at investigating interjections and intensifiers while performing condolence speech act among Persian and Englis...

Sirenomelia: the Mermaid Syndrome

Sirenomelia (the Mermaid Syndrome) is a rare and lethal congenital anomaly with an incidence of one in 100,000 of normal pregnancies. It is an extremely rare set of birth defects, which can vary in expression. The condition gets its name from one of the defects present, which is a fusing of the legs. The fused nature of the legs has been compared to a mermaid in appearance, hence the name. The ...

Expressive Law and the Americans with Disabilities Act.