Speech Act By: Janice Widjajakusuma – 2013008114 Speech acts is an utterance that has formative function in language and communication. As what I have learned earlier in class‚ there are apologize and complaint as example for speech acts. Below I will give some other verb of speech acts that people often use together with the definition and example so we can see the difference between each verb. |Speech Acts Verb |Definition
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No one can deny that freedom of speech is one of the most basic rights in democracies both in the United States and abroad. Unlimited freedom of speech however‚ is an unrealistic expectation for many reasons. The most pressing one being a violent reaction to hate speech. We must be able to seek a balance between freedom of expression and censorship of religious and racial hatred. Hate speech is a type of speech that incites other people to hate a certain group in society defined by common characteristics
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ORGC 201 Informative Speech Assignment Create a 5-6 minute presentation using PowerPoint visuals. Make sure your PowerPoint follows the guidelines discussed in class. The purpose of the presentation should be to inform the audience. Your presentation should reflect a topic‚ theme‚ or issue relevant to your major. For ideas of topics‚ you may consider looking at issues of Crains’ Chicago‚ The Wall Street Journal‚ Bloomberg BusinessWeek‚ The New York Times‚ The Chicago Tribune‚ cnn.com‚ The Huffington
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Informative Speech: "The Causes of Homelessness" Subject and Purpose 1. This informative speech on “The Cause of Homelessness “is very Inform able and worth listening to‚ because in today’s economy it could be you or me. Some seem to think homelessness is choice. I find this speech relevant to the world I live in today‚ due to the high unemployment rate‚ declining job market‚ and the economic hardships that families are enduring. This topic is not a broad one‚ but yet can be spoke
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Sample Persuasive Speech Self-Defense on Campus Speech Commentary Rebecca Hanson You’re tired; you’re hungry. You’ve just spent a long day at College Library and you can’t wait to get back to your room. Glancing outside‚ you remember how quickly it becomes dark. You don’t think much of it‚ though‚ as you bundle up and head out into the gusty wind. Not until you spy the shadows on the sidewalk or hear the leaves rustling beside you do you wish you weren’t alone. You walk quickly‚ trying to
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Obama’s speech – English A Essay In this assignment I would like to analyse and comment on Barack Obama’s speech “Back To School Event”‚ a speech delivered at Wakefield High School in Arlington‚ Virginia in 2009. My main focus through my essay will be the way President Barack Obama addresses the audience and the values he advocates. I will also talk about the composition in the speech. At the end of my essay I will make a conclusion that will sum up my main points‚ which I have realized during
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SPEECH PATHOLOGY Many people would like to make a difference‚ not only in their own life‚ but in others’ lives as well. Deepak Chopra once said‚ “Everyone has a purpose in life…a unique gift or special talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others‚ we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit‚ which is the ultimate goal of all goals.” All of us‚ at one point in our lives‚ have to make the difficult decision of the goals we want to work towards
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Speech is the vocalized form of human communication. It is based upon the syntactic combination of lexical and names that are drawn from very large vocabularies. Each spoken word is created out of the phonetic combination of a limited set of vowel and consonant speech sound units. These vocabularies‚ the syntax which structures them and their set of speech sound units differ‚ creating the existence of many thousands of different types of mutually unintelligible human languages. Most human speakers
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character introduced through his opening speech in the First Episode (lines 159-195) and how does this speech create tension? The bestowal of ruling legitimacy upon Creon sparks off the Greek tragedy. Polyneices and Eteocles‚ brothers of Antigone killed each other during their fateful battle for the Theban throne and Creon‚ as the closest surviving kinsman‚ rules as the Theban king. Creon then approaches the chorus of elders privately and pronounces his first speech‚ wishing to draw himself support from
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The speaker for the speech entitled Bursting the Antibacterial Bubble use very clear and vivid language. A couple of examples from the text include: “Today millions of Americans are trying to build a bubble around themselves and their families to keep out germs. The bubble is not made of plastic‚ however‚ but of billions of dollars worth of antibacterial hand wipes‚ tissues‚ soaps‚ and sponges.” The language included in this speech tends to be very clear cut and supported with numerous facts
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