Speech acts are utterances that contain action as a function of communication considers aspects the speech situation. The objective this research is to analyze type act found in Instagram Captions ‘WHO Indonesia”. This uses descriptive qualitative research. There 332 data which contains some types captions Indonesia”, they directive, representative and expressive acts. 1) Directive performed so...

the necessity and importance of teaching pragmatics has come to light by many researchers (e.g. rose & kasper, 2001). due to the consensus over the need to teach pragmatic competence, the main issue now centers on the question of how we should teach this competence in the most effective way. consistent with this line of research, the present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of d...

The aim of this presentation is to offer a very brief survey, both conceptual and historical, of the developments of Pragmatics during the last sixty years (of course many things will be missing and my development will be very schematic compared to what has already been exposed, but the idea is to offer a way of looking at this history). More precisely it will be the story of how Speech Act The...