I suggest that promises and threats are similar speech acts pose analogous problems for Speech Act Theory. After showing they share the same formal types, argue against there being purportedly fundamental differences between them in regard to explicitability, deontics, illocution/perlocution. conclude joint analysis of suggests propriety a holistic theory illocutionary acts.

Pragmatics studies the use of language in human communication different social backgrounds and contexts (Mey, 2001). In field pragmatics, analysis speech act constitutes one majority related research (Austin, 1962). Speech is significant to linguistic phenomena that occur spoken language, particularly movies. For this study, it choose movie Love Actually as data investigate acts, greeting. Brit...

In this document we discuss the applicability of speech act theory as a theoretical foundation for the design of information technology (IT). We pay special attention to the adaptation speech act theory has undergone when applied in the IT-field. One question we address concerns what happens when we import passive descriptive theories from other disciplines and use them as a basis in active des...

Abstract This paper discusses the speech act of disavowal, focusing in particular on disavowals prior acts. It is argued that are often used when speakers wish to distance themselves certain ways from some past act, but cannot (or should not) retract it. An account offered according which involve three components: an admission having performed target a denunciation and accounting for act. Disav...

Abstract Following and extending Searle’s speech act theory, both Pragma-Dialectics the Linguistic Normative Model of Argumentation characterize argumentation as an illocutionary act. In these models, successful performance arguing depends on securing uptake, effect that, according to Searlean account, characterizes any However, in my view, there is another kind involved arguing, which affects ...

The two principal areas of natural language processing research in pragmatics are belief modelling and speech act processing. Belief modelling is the development of techniques to represent the mental attitudes of a dialogue participant. The latter approach, speech act processing, based on speech act theory, involves viewing dialogue in planning terms. Utterances in a dialogue are modelled as st...