This paper investigates whether, and if so, in what way, argumentation can be profitably described speech-act theoretical terms. I suggest that the two theories of are supposed to provide most elaborate analysis it terms (namely van Eemeren Rob Grootendorst’s Pragma-Dialectics Lilian Bermejo-Luque’s linguistic normative model argumentation) both suffer from same flaws: firstly, their “illocutio...

The purpose of this study was to look at headline writers’ intentions from Tanzanian Nipashe newspapers and classify them in accordance with illocutionary speech acts Taxonomy by Searle (1979). employed a qualitative research approach descriptive design. involved the population 1095 front-page newspaper headlines. A sample 130 headlines chosen each classified according taxonomy Speech Act. Out ...

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 ...

The article touches upon different aspects of promise – as a speech act, means communication. theme is analysed in its relation to various areas philosophical studies: the problem subject’s identity, society system interpersonal interactions, performative utterances and etc. methodological basis includes primarily act theory developed by J. Austin Searle’s speech-act theory, genetically related...

This presentation displays information about effective teacher-student conferencing to improve elementary students’ independent reading comprehension. highlights Jennifer Serravallo’s Research-Compliment-Teach (RCT) model. One of the most critical components any strategy is goal setting. Goal setting helps provide individualized, meaningful motivation and feedback students as they develop reade...