Working Definitions: behabitives a kind of performative concerned roughly with reactions to behavior and with behavior towards others and designed to exhibit attitudes and feelings not concerned with motive‚ concerned with (?) expositives expositional performatives ; the main body of the utterance has generally or often the straightforward form of a statement‚ but there is an explicit performative verb at its head verdicitves: can be descriptive merely of a state of mind
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1. Introduction Communication is a crucial part of our daily life. We have to admit that how to communicate with others is a form of art. It is easy to notice that use different forms to express the same meaning may have different responses from others. In verbal communication‚ we often utter our intention in a roundabout way rather than speaking it out directly. This interesting phenomenon is regarded as indirectness which widely exists in daily communication. Searle (1979:31) defines indirect
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Abstract Political euphemism is a tool for political leaders to control information transmission. Based on some examples‚ this paper begins with a summary of three features which distinguish political euphemism from others. Then‚ it discusses its two social functions based on Austin’s Speech Act Theory: 1. as political leaders’ tool‚ political euphemism plays the role of hiding the truth and legalizing wrong behaviors; 2. it influences people’s sense of right and wrong as well as their understanding
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It’s easy to compare Twilight and The Vampire Diaries‚ partly because they do have similar premises (teen girls in love with vampires attending high school. The Vampire Diaries and Twilight really bring different things to the culture of young adult vampire stories Sex is one of the differences that are easily compared between both shows. Specifically‚ who’s having it and who isn’t. In the first three novels of Twilight‚ there is no sex between the protagonist‚ Bella‚ and her vampire boyfriend
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2 The Contribution of Speech Act Theory to the Analysis of Conversation: How Pre-sequences Work Francois Cooren Universite de Montreal Language and Social Interaction scholars (whether ethnomethodologists‚ ethnographers‚ or conversation analysts) often criticize speech act theorists for using invented sentences and fictional situations to illustrate their points‚ a practice which‚ according to these detractors‚ fails to capture the complexity and sequentiality of human interactions.
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1.1. Background of Study Language is the way which is used by human to build a communication. Language can be expressed to be written or spoken way. Language can be used to convey our feeling‚ giving opinions‚ declaring‚ and commending. Halliday (2003) state that language is a system of meaning of a semiotic system and presented deeply in pragmatics. Pragmatics is the subfield of linguistics and semiotics that studies in which context contributes to the meaning‚ meanings can be expressed by the speaker
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Mackie‚ in his‚ The Subjectivity of Values‚ argued for a moral skepticism by saying that there are no moral facts and that all moral judgments are simply wrong. In order to understand why he believes this it must be established what his theory is. Mackie claims his theory is an error theory concerning objective morality. Mackie argues that moral judgments “assume moral objectivity‚ which is itself wrong.” Mackie argues that moral objectivity must have two things in order to exist: intrinsic reason-giving
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Contemporary philosophers such as‚ G.E. Moore‚ C.L. Stevenson‚ and J.L. Mackie‚ all have theories that develop different views concerning the status of moral judgments and the existence of moral facts. Moore‚ in his‚ Subject Matter of Ethics‚ argued that moral facts do exist and can be true or false but must be indescribable. Stevenson‚ in his‚ The Emotive Meaning of Ethical Terms‚ disagreed with Moore and said that moral judgements can’t be true or false they simply can inspire certain feelings
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Ashfall‚ by Mike Mullin‚ is the book that I read. The setting of the story takes place during modern-day times in Iowa and Illinois. The story is about the supervolcano under Yellowstone National Park erupting and what would happen to society after the event. The main character‚ Alex‚ tries to get to his family‚ who are away at his uncle’s farm during the eruption. The main characters are Alex‚ who is a 16-year-old boy‚ and Darla‚ who is a 17-year-old girl who Alex finds in the middle of the
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Herbert Mullin Herbert Mullin was born in Salina California which happens to be the anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake as well as Einstein’s death. He was the youngest between him and his sibling‚ Patricia. He was raised by both parents Jean and Bill Mullin. He didn’t have any problems in school he was popular and physically attractive. He had a good childhood but through his life span he made a lot of wrong decisions that includes drug abuse which aggravated schizophrenia. In
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