Abstract: This study aimed to describe the types of illocutionary speech acts found in Yusuf Hamka's statements on Dady Corbuzier's YouTube channel podcast. research used descriptive with a qualitative approach. The data obtained this were which was accessed Deddy Corbuizer's podcast channel. Data collection techniques observing and note-taking techniques, while reduction concluding. results ar...

This article addresses the controversial issue of the prosodic marking of Information Focus in French. We report the results of three experiments (one in production two in perception) that support three claims. The first one is empirical. Phrases that resolve a question may be set off by two types of intonational marks in French: they host the nuclear pitch accent (NPA) on their right edge and/...

A f ramework for t r a n s l a t i n g speake r ' s meaning or intention is proposed based on two notions, Illocutionary Force Types (IFTs) for analysis and Decision Parameters (DPs) for g e n e r a t i o n . IFTs are a c e r t a i n k i n d of classification of utterances concerning speaker's meaning. DPs present background information of language use in order to derive an appropriate expressi...

A spoken dialog system typically characterizes a domain task with multiple states interconnected by actions or thresholds as transitions between states. As the system attempts to solicit a piece of information from the user, it may have to engage in a hidden subdialog, or error handling within a particular state, before transitioning to a new state. Hidden subdialogs generally center on illocut...

German modal or discourse particles make a contribution to the illocutionary force of an utterance. In this paper we integrate a model of belief sets held as part of the Common Ground into the Abstract Knowledge Representation (AKR) component of the German ParGram grammar. We follow recent accounts that divide the Common Ground into individual belief state sets for each of the discourse partici...

This paper is about the cognitive foundations of pragmatic theories. Besides the fact that the usual appropriateness conditions for speech acts, which are given in cognitive terms, such as S knows/believes/wants ... (that) p , require empirical investigation, a sound theory of pragmatics must also explain how certain utterances in certain contexts are actually understood as certain speech acts....