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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towards her in a private manner. He then proceeds to "other" and mock her in line 4 by not including his own subjectivity in the discourse. "Do not you feel a great inclination‚ Miss Bennet‚ to seize such an opportunity of dancing a reel?" - In this "utterance" Mr. Darcy does not include himself in the discourse and refers to Elizabeth as "you"‚ this creates a distance between the two as the "you" is not linked to Mr. Darcy’s "I". Mr. Darcy extenuates Elizabeth by referring to her as "Miss Bennet"‚ in
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ENGLISH STYLISTICS G. Misikova – Linguistic stylistics I. R. Galperin- Stylistics Crystal D. and Davy D. – Investigating English Style / for non-literary styles STYLISTICS Style and Styleme Štylistika je náuka o výbere a spôsobe využívania jazykových a mimojazykových alebo umeleckých prostriedkov a postupov uplatňovaných v procese použitia komunikácie. Jazykový štýl je spôsob prejavu‚ ktorý vzniká cieľavedomým výberom‚ zákonitým usporiadaním a využitím jazykových a mimojazykových
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END-OF-TERM TEST ON ENGLISH PHONETICS & PHONOLOGY Time allotted: 30 minutes Please read the questions provided with four choices‚ marked A‚ B‚ C‚ and D in this reading paper. Then‚ on your answer sheet‚ tick the correct box for the letter that corresponds to the answer you have chosen. ** ** Please do not write anything in this reading paper. 1. Which of the following groups contains a segment that differs in voicing from the other segments ? A. [z‚ d ‚ ð‚ b ] B. [ m‚ n‚ ŋ
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IMPORTANT ELEMENTS OF THE SPOKEN MESSAGE AND ALSO HELPING TO REGULATE CONVERSATIONAL INTERACTION • PROSODY IS THE RHYTHM‚ STRESS‚ AND INTONATION OF SPEECH. PROSODY MAY REFLECT VARIOUS FEATURES OF THE SPEAKER OR THE UTTERANCE: THE EMOTIONAL STATE OF THE SPEAKER; THE FORM OF THE UTTERANCE (STATEMENT‚ QUESTION‚ OR COMMAND); THE PRESENCE OF IRONY OR SARCASM; EMPHASIS‚ CONTRAST‚ AND FOCUS; OR OTHER ELEMENTS OF LANGUAGE THAT MAY NOT BE ENCODED BY GRAMMAR OR BY CHOICE OF VOCABULARY THE ROLES OF PARALANGUAGE
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Galperin: Stylisitics is a branch of general linguistics‚ which deals with the following two interdependent tasks: a) studies the totality of special linguistic means ( stylistic devices and expressive means ) which secure the desirable effect of the utterance; b) studies certain types of texts "discourse" which due to the choice and
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shows that there are a lot of long pauses in just one utterance‚ a pause can sometimes be just a hesitation but in political speech is it more likely to be deliberate. It is an interesting technique because when the orator has paused‚ even if only for a second‚ it gives the audience a chance to reflect on what has been said and interpret the information said across in their own way. However‚ many people may not realise that whilst letting the utterance play on the audience minds it also gives the speaker
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Transformational Grammarians held such a view of grammar. Grammar can be still more widely defined so as to include phonology‚ morphology‚ syntax‚ semantics and rules of communicative competence is defined as the study of context in the interpretation of utterances. Dell Hymes‚ widdowson‚ Keith Brown‚ Wilkins etc. hold such a view of grammar. Then‚ our concept of what is grammatical is dependent upon our view of grammar. Linguists who include only morphology and syntax under grammar will regard syntactically
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grammar as a branch of linguistics Grammar is one of the main linguistic disciplines which studies the grammatical system of language. The grammatical system is the whole set of regularities determining the combinations of words in the formation of utterances. The foundations of systemic language description were formulated at the turn of the 20th century in the works of many linguists‚ among them the Russian linguists I. A. Baudoin de Courtenay‚ A. A. Potebnya and others. The originator of the systemic
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you will fulfill the law of Christ. What are the results of discouragement? Inability to pray or praying the wrong prayer. For example‚ Moses prayed for death in Numbers 11: 4-15; Elijah prayed to die in Kings 19: 1-4 Unholy utterances could occur‚ for example‚ Job’s utterances when in crisis Emotional wrong thoughts could occur‚ Mathew 11: 2-6 Vision could be affected by discouragement‚ for example‚ the spies to the Promised Land saw giants instead of God. They caused the whole generation to weep
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