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Direct Speech Acts - Brandeis University
people.brandeis.eduIndirect Speech Acts Let's look again at the interrogative sentence: (d1) Did Jenny get an A on the test? direct question (d2) Do you know if Jenny got an A on the test? indirect question The reply is directed to the speech act meaning, not the literal meaning. Other indirect ways of asking the same question, using the declarative form: (d3) I'd like to know if Jenny got an A on the test ...
Twelve Activities for Teaching the Pragmatics of ...
americanenglish.state.govspeech act of . complaining, which is used to . express the speaker’s dissatisfaction. Speech acts can be broken down into smaller components, or strategies, that speakers use to accomplish the communicative function. For example, Murphy and Neu (1996, 199– 203) identify four strategies that can be used in the speech act of complaining. The ...
22 CriticalDiscourseAnalysis - Teun A. van Dijk
www.discourses.orgexerciseof power, controlling people’s minds through such discourse is an indirect ... speech acts, appropriateness, or politeness. Both semantic situation models as well ... Social action, speech act Control Personal context model Personal situation model Social …