the present study aims to investigate the relative effectiveness of different types of pragmatic instruction including two collaborative translation tasks and two structured input tasks with and without explicit pragmatic instruction on the production of apologetic utterances by low-intermediate efl learners. one hundred and fifty university students in four experimental groups and one control ...

A major critique against BDI (Belief, Desire, Intention) approaches to the communication is that they require strong hypotheses such as sincerity, cooperation, ... on the mental states of the agents (cf. for example [12], [13], [5]). The aim of this paper is to give an operator remeding this defect to a logic BDI. Thus we study communication between heterogeneous agents via the notion of ground...

Sentences like these are special insofar as their utterance in appropriate circumstances amounts to performing the action identified by the finite verb. The typical formal properties of such sentences in English include first person subjects, second person indirect objects, a present tense non-progressive active form of a speech act verb and the deictic adverb hereby, but performative sentences...

the present study investigated the use of l2 private speech by english foreign language (efl) learners in regulating their mental activities. thirty intermediate adult efl learners took a test of solving challenging english riddles while their voices were being recorded. following, instances of the produced private speech were analyzed in terms of form, content, and function. numerous instances...

When we speak we can do all sorts of things, from aspirating a consonant, to constructing a relative clause, to insulting a guest, to starting a war. These are all, pre-theoretically, speech acts—acts done in the process of speaking. The theory of speech acts, however, is especially concerned with those acts that are not completely covered under one or more of the major divisions of grammar—pho...

contracts sometimes disband to different reasons. one of contracts disbanding causation is resolutory condition. on this base parties stipulate if incident, act or omission arise contract disband. at this face contract disband with acquirement condition on it. in such cases dissolution ground is willing and consequence appears automatically. in truth resolutory condition there is doubt that wit...

The relevance of the study is determined by hidden turbulence such concepts often used in Russian studies as “speech activity”, acts” and “discourse”. aim work to determine genetic connections this trinity functional purpose each categories under consideration. main research means authors’ method discursive-modus analysis artistic speech. materials were dictionary definitions from explanatory d...

A semantical theory of belief revision in synchronous multi-agent systems is presented. The theory assumes that the world is static, and that the belief revision methods used by the agents are common knowledge. It is shown that the theory has as a special case the revision of knowledge in a broadcast variant of Fagin and Vardi's communicating scientists model, in which knowledge is deened in te...

In this paper we address the important task of automated discovery of speech act categories in dialogue-based, multi-party educational games. Speech acts are important in dialogue-based educational systems because they help infer the student speaker’s intentions (the task of speech act classification) which in turn is crucial to providing adequate feedback and scaffolding. A key step in the spe...


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 This study is a rhetorical analysis of the victory speech Indonesian presidential candidates in national election held on April 17th, 2019. aims to know features pragma-stylistic mainly act as presented speeches related winning claims by after general election. attempts identify and analyze manifested within pragma-stylistics framework, which act. assessed both candidates’...