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 CRITIQUE This paper will critique the speech Questions of Culture delivered by a graduate of Richmond University in 1996. The speakers name is Sajjid Zahir Chinoy. This critique will focus on the organization‚ content and delivery of the speech. INTRODUCTION Sajjid started the speech in a very interesting way. He used an anecdote to start off the speech; this method was effective because it grasped the attention of the audience. Many of the audience members could relate to Sajjids personal
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Pronunciation of Nouns in Text to Speech systems E.Veera Raghavendra‚ Lavanya Prahallad IIIT Hyderabad‚ India raghavendra@iiit.net‚ lavanyap@cmu.edu At present most speech synthesis systems use raw text as their input which is understandable from a human point of view but problematic for the machines since the process of converting text to speech is very complex; in this paper we discuss the need for having a specific SSML tag for each “mention” (1st occurrence‚ 2nd occurrence) of a proper noun
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Oral Communication Summer 2013 Informative Speech Outlines Guide Topic: Nike Informative Speech Specific purpose statement: To inform my audience … How the Nike brand was formed and became a household name. Nike brand is a well-known household name because the companies founders were able to capitalize on a logo paired with celebrity sponsorship and representation. Introduction 1- In 1972‚ the “Swoosh” logo was designed for thirty-five dollars and in 2012 Nike’s net worth is
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American Researchers in the late 1920s conducted an experiment the goal of this experiment was to keep five people awake for thirty days using a new gas stimulant. The test subjects were put into a sealed chamber. The researchers carefully watched the subject’s oxygen levels to make sure the gas did not kill them. The researchers did not have cameras to monitor the subjects. All they had was microphones and small thick glass windows. The chamber had books and beds to sleep on but no sheets or covers
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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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The Kings Speech My opinion on the film “The Kings Speech” was that I found it to be very interesting‚ the dialogue is understandable and it’s a very touching movie that draws you in from start to finish. “The Kings Speech” is the story of King George‚ taking place in the mid-1930s‚ after the death of his father; the throne was passed on to George’s brother‚ David. But David makes the decision to reject the throne to marry a woman who has been divorced because he loves her and in order to be king
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Informative Speech Outline I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: Video of iPhone ad. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4IRsCjMqdI B. Background and Audience Relevance: Most people in this class have smart phones and most of those smart phones happen to be iPhones. iPhones can do more things than most people know‚ and now days most people cannot live without their iPhones. C. Speaker Credibility: As an iPhone owner of 2 years‚ I have learned a lot about what iPhones can do and why me and most
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Horrendous is what I can say to describe this. Read this very carefully guys and take a close look at yourself and the environment that you live in today… “P.W. Botha speech 1985” (I was 3 years old): THE FOLLOWING is a speech made by former South African President P.W. Botha to his Cabinet. This reprint was written by David G. Mailu for the Sunday Times‚ a South African newspaper‚ dated August 18‚ 1985. "Pretoria has been made by the White mind for the White man. We are not obliged
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Maegan Fisher Advance Composition Dr. Timothy Bartel March 8‚ 2015 Speech 3 Body Shaming “We’re not broken. We’re not in the wrong bodies. We’re not inadequate. We’re not lesser. We’re not unwanted. We’re not fraudulent. We’re not undesirable. That’s all just a set of lies we tell to soothe the experience of the prisons we put ourselves in.” ―Agnostic Zetetic Body shaming‚ a horrible issue here in America. This inappropriate negative attitude toward another person or yourselves weight or size is
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