An expressive illocutionary speech act is a in which speaker expresses his thoughts and feelings of being thanking apologizing. Usually, one utterance conveys meaning, but this research, sentence has two to four additional meanings. This phenomenon came from elements outside the that affect presence meaning. The aim present indication can have more than meaning expand theory acts. research used...

The approach outlined in this paper aims to provide better expressivity of unit selection TTS for dialog intended applications while retaining the natural sounding voice quality typical of unit selection synthesis. A small set of speech acts were used to annotate a corpus from one female US English speaker. The corpus was composed of speech read primarily from interactive dialogs of various kin...

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 ...

We are developing and testing a computer model of conversation by constructing a program that engages its user in purposeful conversation to help him perform some task. Conversation is viewed as a sequence of actions performed by the participants, intentionally affecting each other's model of the world, primarily their beliefs and goals. These actions can only be performed if certain conditions...

This study was an attempt to investigate Iranian and Spanish intermediate nonnative English learners’ request strategies to their faculty. To this aim, 74 (50 Iranian and 24 Spanish) nonnative English intermediate learners participated in this study. A discourse completion test (DCT) was used to elicit the request strategies used by the participants. The findings suggested the participants empl...

Systems for supporting communication in organizations should be founded on a theorY of language and communication. A well-known theorY for this purpose is speech act theorY. developed by Austin and Searle. Flores e.a. used this theorY for the design of TH E COORDINATOR. Speech act theorY however has some serious shortcomings which are brought to the fore by Habermas. His examination of Searle's...