The Speech Acts in English Legal Texts A Master Thesis Submitted to Graduate School‚ Southwest University of Political Science and Law In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Master Degree of Forensic Linguistics in Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics April‚ 2008 Acknowledgements I would like to extend my gratitude to the following people‚ without whose support and encouragement‚ I could not complete the thesis. My deepest appreciation first goes to my thesis instructor
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himself as a political dissenter. He does this to establish some sort of credibility as a free speech advocate‚ supposedly in contrast to what he will continue to speak about. While there is no mystery why he does this in my estimation‚ in so doing he perpetuates what I believe to be a fundamental misconception about free speech as it relates to law and the continued health of democracy. If free speech is to have any power at all‚ the ability to shout down ideas that have no value must remain. Freedom
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Opening Speech Good morning fellow delegates and chair‚ Romania has generalized freedom of religion in its country‚ and created two different groups of religion based on their size and if they are recognized internationally or not. The smaller unrecognized religion could more often than not be recognized as cults or sects‚ which is what Romania is trying to combat. Romanian Orthodox believers comprise of 86.8 percent of the population. Roman Catholics make up 4.7 percent of the population‚ while
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CHAPTER I 1.0 INTRODUCTION Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer‚ and can be implemented in software or hardware. A text-to-speech (TTS) system converts normal language text into speech; other systems render symbolic linguistic representations like phonetic transcriptions into speech. The ultimate goal of text-to-speech synthesis is to convert ordinary orthographic text into an acoustic signal that
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are guaranteed many freedoms by their constitution. Freedom of speech is one of the most wonderful freedoms. Throughout history‚ great social reforms have begun when one person exercising his or her freedom of speech. With this same freedom‚ others have victimized and endangered entire groups of people for their uniqueness. Free speech has been a controversial topic for many years. There are both positive and negative sides of free speech. Some people want to protect it as a human right; while others
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Freedom of speech is being talked about often recently‚ but it is becoming limited more and more before our eyes. Some people think this is a good idea‚ others are not thinking it is a wise choice. There are two sides for everything and each side has its own evidence. It is starting to become an issue that needs to be addressed. A college student named‚ Robert Van Tuinen‚ was stopped in his tracks when he was passing out books of the US Constitution. The college student asked about his freedom to
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Freedom of Speech In this reading‚ Hentoff continues to examine how Americans repress each other on matters regarding freedom of speech. He argues that it is easy for Americans to support freedom of speech in general but the same people change tact when they are negatively affected by other individuals’ exercise of free speech. To demonstrate the rising level of attack on free expression‚ Hentoff gives the example of opposition to a march planned by the American Nazi Party through Skokie‚ an area
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B. If Sameer’s Speech is a Matter of Public Concern‚ Then the City’s Interests Outweigh Sameer’s Speech Interests Because Sameer’s Interests Resulted from Personal Dissatisfaction‚ and His Speech Was Disruptive and Inaccurate. C: Because Sameer’s post on Ms. Cruz’s social media did not constitute speech of public concern‚ further analysis is not required. However‚ even if the court found his speech to be on a matter of public concern‚ the City’s interest in efficiently operating and providing emergency
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Speech Communication 49 (2007) 861–873 www.elsevier.com/locate/specom Highly accurate children’s speech recognition for interactive reading tutors using subword units Andreas Hagen‚ Bryan Pellom *‚ Ronald Cole Center for Spoken Language Research‚ University of Colorado at Boulder‚ 1777 Exposition Drive‚ Suite #171‚ Boulder‚ CO 80301‚ USA Received 15 December 2005; received in revised form 20 February 2007; accepted 9 May 2007 Abstract Speech technology offers great promise in the field of automated
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To me‚ having the right of freedom of speech means that I can voice my opinion wherever and whenever I feel the urge to without the fear of being prosecuted. The United States would be in an extremely weak state if citizens did not have the right to freedom of speech. Without freedom of speech in our Bill of Rights‚ people could not necessarily stand up for what they believed in. I think that if a person has a valid point or even an unvalid point that they want to voice nothing should stand in their
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