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    Is Gender Performative?

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    Is gender performative? “One of the interpretations that has been made of Gender Trouble is that there is no sex‚ there is only gender‚ and gender is performative.” (Judith Butler interview 1993) When approaching and investigating the discourse of gender roles‚ gender performance and gender trouble one will find that there have been different approaches over the centuries and that the connection made between sex and gender is one of change and development. The questions that are going to be answered

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    Judith Butler has advanced a notion of gender performativity in 1990 book Gender Truble. For Butler‚ she regards gender as a script that is a rehearsable act. Every human beings is actor that performing the script in the reality through repetition. Then it turns to perform in the mode of belief that everyone should act accordingly to those norms. Women keep on practicing what femininity is that culturally prescribed‚ men are masculine because they fulfill what the society think that is masculinity

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    Advertising Advertising‚ is defined as the act of informing or notifying; or to call the public’s attention to a product or service especially in order to sell. Advertising is by far the most visible way in which businesses present information to the public. Over the years‚ advertising methods and objectives have stirred up quite a bit of controversy dealing with certain issues. Those who criticize advertising are concerned with specific practices linked with advertising. Critics are especially concerned

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    Speech Act Theory

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    Introduction Till the middle of the XX century the only function of speech acts was to describe the reality. The process of realization of language units in speech was viewed through the comparison of language and speech as a potential system of signs. Pragmatics itself studies how transmission of meaning depends not only on the linguistic knowledge of the speaker and listener‚ but also on the context of an utterance‚ knowledge about the status of those involved‚ the inferred intent of the speaker

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    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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    speech acts theory

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    word play. Speech acts by Austin (1962)‚ Searle (1969)‚ and Grice (1975) are considered a kind of pragmatic meaning to clarify the ambiguity of meaning of a sentence within its context. Speech act theory must reckon with the fact that the relationship between the words being used and the force of their utterance is often oblique (Back‚ 18). Indeed‚ Austin’s How to Do Things with Words (1962) sheds light on the use aspect of language since he has established the groundwork for speech act theory and

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    Function of Speech Acts

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    Functions of Speech Acts in a Dialogue Introduction The dialogue analyzed in this paper is about two foreign students who have lunch in a restaurant. They sit next to each other at a counter and wait to be served. They do not know each other‚ but because the wait is too long they get bored. So‚ the older student‚ Maria‚ who is 19-year-old and comes from Venezuela‚ turns over the person sitting next to her and starts a conversation with a younger 18-year-old student‚ Ali‚ who comes from Saudi Arabia

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    | MGMT405International and Comparative Management | | First assignment CASE: Advertising or Free Speech | | 2010/7/28 | | a) What ethical issues faced by MNCs in their treatment of foreign workers could bring allegations of misconduct in their operations? The ethical issues that faced by MNCS in their treatment of foreign workers is the issue of human right. But currently there are no universally adopted standard and a great deal of subjectivity

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    Austin’s Speech Act Theory and the Speech Situation Etsuko Oishi Esercizi Filosofici 1‚ 2006‚ pp. 1-14 ISSN 1970-0164 link: http://www.univ.trieste.it/~eserfilo/art106/oishi106.pdf AUSTIN’S SPEECH ACT THEORY AND THE SPEECH SITUATION Etsuko Oishi The talk starts with a question‚ why do we discuss Austin now? While answering the question‚ I will (I) present an interpretation of Austin’s speech act theory‚ (II) discuss speech act theory after Austin‚ and (III) extend Austin’s speech act theory

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    Deceptive Commercial Speech and Advertising According to the commercial speech doctrine‚ only deceptive speech that is considered commercial may be regulated. General deceptive speech is not commercial‚ may not be regulated. When deciding what may and may not be regulated‚ it is important to understand the subtle differences in what is considered commercial and non commercial speech. An analyzation of false advertising would give further understanding to the notion of commercial speech and how it may

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