This paper was set out to investigate the main cultural differences between Saudi and British participants making apologies with a focus on the role of the gender of the addressee in the selection of apology strategies in gender-segregated vs. coed societies. Written questionnaires were used to collect data from 80 participants: 20 Saudi males, 20 Saudi females, 20 British males and 20 British ...

The topic of this research is about directive speech act and the violations politeness maxim in one famous anime. anime shows us daily life activity. Both speakers hearers can break people’s communication make someone’s to do something. aim describes entitled Himouto Umaru Chan. This used descriptive qualitative method. For theory, researcher theory proposed by Searle Namatame also principal Ge...

This research aims to identify the type of speech acts in Indonesian Horror Game named Pamali: Folklore Horror. uses a descriptive qualitative method that focuses on act only. To collect data, we used two methods; there are document analysis and FGD. FGD consists researcher raters. The rater has been chosen by several criteria before. four series from Spradley's theory analyze data. result reve...

Could we enrich speech-act theory to deal with discourse ? Wittgenstein and Searle pointed out difficulties. Most conversations lack a conversational purpose , their background is indefinitely open , they can contain irrelevant and infelicitous utterances , they require collective intentionality , etc.

The current study was carried out to investigate the functions of the ritual speech act of ‘ya Allah’ (literally meaning ‘O God’) employed by Iranians in social interactions. To this end, sixty-two Persian native speakers of different age groups, ranging from 35 to 85, of both genders were observed in 250 natural situations such as daily interactions, gatherings, public or private places and lo...

Abs t r ac t Why do we speak? Because we want to influence each other's behavior. The relevance of a speech act can measure its nsefulness. In this paper I argue that (i) the relevance of a speech act depends on the 'language game' one is involved in; (ii) notions of relevance can be defined using decision, information and game theory, and can be used for linguistic applications; and (fii) the ...

What individuates the speech act of prediction? The standard view is that prediction is individuated by the fact that it is the unique speech act that requires future-directed content. We argue against this view and two successor views. We then lay out several other potential strategies for individuating prediction, including the sort of view we favor. We suggest that prediction is individuated...

Speech acts are crucial in establishing and achieving a conversation's goal. The purpose of this research is to examine speech the Moxie movie. This study examines types illocutionary perlocutionary produced by main characters movie, Vivian Claudia. writer used two different theories conduct research: theory act Austin (1962, as cited Cutting, 2002) classification Searle (1975, Leech (1983, Pec...

Agents in multiagent systems interact to a large extent by communicating. Such communication may be fruitfully studied from the point of view of speech act theory. In order for multiagent systems to be formally and rigorously designed and analyzed, a semantics of speech acts that gives their objective model-theoretic conditions of satisfaction is needed. However, most research into multiagent s...