This research work is centered on the speech act analysis of Dame Patience Jonathan. The main objectives are to identify types acts in selected Patience’s speeches as well discover its effects citizens country. theoretical framework adopted for data Searle’s theory. For analysis, only three Jonathan will be used. includes: Chibok girls speech, campaign at Umuahia and Calabar. study finds out th...

This paper deals with conversations at an abstract level. The purpose is to sketch a theoretical framework for messaging where electronically mediated conversations can be decomposed into elements. More specifically, the decomposition takes advantage of the speech act theory. The speech act theory has already been applied to both human beings and artificial agents, but in separate contexts and ...

A major critique against BDI (Belief, Desire, Intention) approaches to communication is that they require strong hypotheses such as sincerity and cooperation on the mental states of the agents (cf. for example [13,14,5]). The aim of this paper is to remed this defect. Thus we study communication between heterogeneous agents via the notion of grounding, in the sense of being publicly expressed a...

This paper is about the cognitive foundations of pragmatic theories. Besides the fact that the usual appropriateness conditions for speech acts, which are given in cognitive terms, such as S knows/believes/wants ... (that) p , require empirical investigation, a sound theory of pragmatics must also explain how certain utterances in certain contexts are actually understood as certain speech acts....

politicians adopt a variety of linguistic strategies in their speeches to connect with their audience. to name one, appraisal, as a system of interpersonal meaning, is concerned with evaluation where resources are used for negotiating social relationships. despite their significance in shaping texts, there have hardly been any extensive inventories of appraisal tools contrasting electoral speec...