I challenge two key assumptions of speech act theory, as applied to argumentation: illocutionary monism, grounded in the idea each utterance has only one (primary) force, and dyadic reduction, which models interaction a affair between agents (speaker-hearer, proponentopponent). show how major contributions inspired study argumentation adhere these even pluralism argumentative polylogues is sign...

Apology may be defined as “a compensatory action for an offense committed by the speaker which has affected hearer” (Marquez-Reiter, 2000, p. 44), and a compliment is another speech act "which explicitly or implicitly attributes credit to someone other than speaker... positively valued hearer" (Holmes, 1986, 485). The focus of this paper find out strategies are employed Turkish pre-service EFL ...

The purpose of the study was to examine how teacher motivational practice might influence Iranian EFL Learners’ Request and Refusal Speech Acts Production. To this end, five instruments were used to provide appropriate responses to research questions: (a) Quick Placement Test (b) the Motivational Orientation of Language Teaching classroom observation scheme, (c) the Post-Lesson Teacher Evaluati...