communication purposes and while sentences can often be used to report states of affair‚ the utterance of some sentences must in specified circumstances‚ be treated as the performance of an act. The contemporary Speech act theory was elaborated by J. L. Austin‚ a British philosopher of language; he introduced this theory in 1975 in his well-known book ‘How do things with words’. He was persuaded that we do not use language to tell only things‚ meaning to make statements‚ but also to do things‚ that
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------------------------------------------------- Speech Acts in Kris Aquino’s tweets ------------------------------------------------- Presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Sociolinguistics of the Graduate School of Ateneo de Davao University By Juliet G. Vasay Dennis C. Jaum ***** Ateneo de Davao University October 24‚ 2012 Acknowledgements _________________________________________________________________ The researchers would like to acknowledge
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It’s not the Computer’s Fault Love Virus (2000) It cost $8.75 billion dollars and millions of computers were infected along with significant data loss. The LoveLetter infected millions of people worldwide and had caused the largest damage of any virus in history. The bug deleted files‚ changed home pages and messed with the Registry. It attacked via-email and sent an email with the subject of “ILOVEYOU”. When the user opened the message it would infect the computer and everyone else’s in the address
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The book I read this quarter is called Jenny Pox by J.L. Bryan. It’s a self published book I got for free on my kindle‚ and it’s 309 pages long. Jenny Pox is classified as horror in the kindle store‚ but the blurb didn’t seem to scary or graphic. It told me Jenny Pox was about a teenage girl named Jenny who couldn’t touch anyone without making them sick with a disease/infection nicknamed “Jenny Pox”. At the time‚ I was going on a sort of shopping spree for free books‚ so I bought it along with about
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example; “…the blues of the apex falling‚ then seething into a turbulence of red…” (Carr‚p.46) J. L. Carr who is the writer of A Month in the Country may have written his short novel as an open novel for the wide
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learners’ cognitive ability and the development of communicative competence. II. Relevant theories The relevant theory concerning this communicative language test is speech act theory. Researches done in the area of speech act theory by linguists J. Austin and J. Searle have thrown light on
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Bibliography: Searle‚ John R. Indirect speech acts. In Cole and Morgan (eds.)‚ reprinted in Searle 1979‚ 1975. 蔡 平. “翻译方法应以归化为主”[J].中国翻译‚ 2002，(23):5.
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PROPERTIES OF PREDICATE Properties of predicate devide into these type: Properties of Predicates Semmetry Reflexsive‚ Transitive Assymetry irreflexsive intransitive Symmetric predicate P = a two – place predicate X = referring expression Y = referring expression XPY entails YPX P = a symmetric predicate Assymmetric predicate P = a two – place predicate X = referring expression Y = referring expression XPY contradicted to YPX P = an assymmetric predicate
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Persuasive communication: marketing* MARIE-ODILE TAILLARD The case of Abstract Two of the goals of human communication are: to be understood and to be believed. In persuasive communication‚ both of these acts are fulfilled. Pragmatists have investigated the first goal and how it is carried out‚ while social psychologists have focused on the second goal. This paper attempts to shed new light on persuasion by reviewing work from both fields and sketching the outline of a model integrating
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References: 1. Austin‚ J.(1962). How to Do Things with Words. Oxford University Press. 2. Beak‚ G.(1988). Asross-cultural study of compliment and compliment response in English and Korean. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Seoul. 3. Brown‚ G.&Yule‚ G.(1983). Discourse Analysis
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