This study aims to find out the commissive illocutionary acts which are implied by characters in novel She Wore Red Trainers (2014) Na’ima Robert. It identify types of found selected novel. uses a descriptive- qualitative method examine collected data. The data utterances from text These classified on basis speech act theories Austin (1962) and Searle (1969), into three acts: offering, promisin...

From the perspective of Pragmatics, some scholars claim that taxonomy illocutionary acts should be revised. The aim this paper is to propose such a review by means research field in which Lexicography and Pragmatics overlap. As we attempt prove, formulemes offer advantage being narrower study than free utterances. Formulemes ( Have nice day! ) have been defined within Meaning Text-Theory as typ...

Abstract The present study takes a metapragmatics approach to studying language users' conceptualizations of requests and apologies. In particular, two spoken sub-corpora within the BNC COCA were searched for inflectional derivational variants request apology , which are part meta-illocutionary lexicon. retrieved items analyzed with respect frequency occurrence communicative functions in contex...

The purpose of this research is to investigate the illocutionary force uttered by Theresa May which focuses on political aspects in context Brexit and how responded people. In conducting research, qualitative was used describe two kinds data: utterances containing May’s speech responses those forces. results based are emphasized international relationship, law regulation, geographical border, g...

The prestige of Turkish drama series in the world cinema is considered worthy appreciation. Every that presented can grab attention audience. It because some elements such as theme, genre, storyline, and setting. One dramas have caught public Sultan Abdul Hamid II. This study aims to describe illocutionary speech well meaning utterances contained this series. qualitative descriptive research. d...