this essay examines greetings as one of the elements of politeness in a nigerian community and how it influences the cultural characteristics of the people. to analyze, this essay makes use of speech act theory and politeness principle and also considers the pragmatic context in analyzing different types of greetings such as condolences, departure and arrival, rejoicing, daily greetings, casual...

the present research is aimed at investigating how the politeness of the speakers of urdu is influenced by their relative social status in society. the researcher took politeness theory of brown and levinson (1978, 1987) as a model. to observe politeness of urdu speakers, speech act of apology with different strategies was selected. a discourse completion task (dct) was used as an instrument to...

Speech acts theory is not about words, phrases or sentences which are mainly used as units of interaction between people, but basically actions that achieved through such utterances. 'Speech theory' belongs to the realm Pragmatics. In this study, selected stretches discourse two court speeches highlighted. These trailers emerge in a formal setting presence an authority who makes judgments on di...

The entitled of this study is “A Speech Act Analysis Hyperactive Children at Pradnyagama Theraphy Center”. aim the to describe speech act hyperactive children Center. Hyperactivity can also be described as a physical state in which person abnormally and easily excitable or exuberant. Strong emotional reactions, impulsive behavior, short span attention are typical for person. kids who fidgety, r...

Being a social human, people have way to express their hopes, which produces directive illocutionary act. Directive acts are fascinating phenomenon of acts. This research used theory from Searle (1979) find out the dominant three types speech act, Leech (1983) about Aspect Speech analyzed purpose The researcher descriptive qualitative approach collect data, data that founds source were by using...

This paper outlines a formal computational semantics and pragmatics of the major speech act types. A theory of force is given that allows us to give a semantically and pragmaticaly motivated taxonomy of speech acts. The relevance of the communication theory to complex distributed artificial intellince, DAI, systems is described. l Introduction In a system that engages in a dialogue with a user ...

A dialogue agent is one that can interact and communicate with other agents in a coherent manner not just with one shot messages but with a sequence of related messages all on the same topic or in service of an overall goal Following the basic insights of speech act theory these communications are seen not just as transmitting information but as actions which change the state of the world Most ...

The present study aimed to identify strategies used to realize the speech act of offerin Persian. To do so, 195 male and female native Persian speakers were selected fromdiverse age ranges, educational backgrounds, and social classes, and were assigned a36-item Discourse Completion Task (DCT) to elicit the speech act of offer. Thirtyfield workers also recorded naturally occurring interactions c...

Krista Lawlor’s Assurance is a rich and stimulating work. Lawlor argues that assurance is “a distinctive speech act,” that assurance “is not the speech act of assertion,” and that assurance has a special relationship to claiming that one has knowledge (Lawlor 2013, quotes from pp. 9, 3; unless otherwise noted, all parenthetical page references are to this work). Because she theorizes about the ...