Nowadays, there are many cases when messages and publications distributed orally in writing the media-Internet sites, social networks (Facebook, You Tube), personal Whatsapp chats, provoke conflicts between parties. This indicates possibility of language existence as a factor conflict communicative situation topicality studying its activities tool situation. The solution this problem requires t...

n the recent years, the knowledge of stylistics has experienced some new branches. thanks to the recent efforts of a group of linguists, traditional stylistics has changed its branches in favour of genres, rather than the types of prose and verse. up until two decades ago, stylistics mainly focused on the form of the text, and the genres were almost ignored or overlooked. however, in the light ...

In this paper, we address several puzzles concerning speech acts, particularly indirect speech acts. We show how a formal semantic theory of discourse interpretation can be used to define speech acts and to avoid murky issues concerning the metaphysics of action. We provide a formally precise definition of indirect speech acts, including the subclass of so-called conventionalized indirect speec...

Language and emotion are two related systems in use, in that one system (emotions) impacts the performance of the other (language). Both of them share their functionality in communication. Since the nature of foreign language classrooms is ideally interactional, emotional intelligence (EI) gains importance. The aim of this study was to find out whether one's total emotional quotient and its com...

the issue of speech act is a significant issue in pragmatics. speech acts encapsulate lectionary, illocutionary and perloctionary forces. i have dealt with what is said in speech. what is said is an achieved action. to be achieved, this action depends on presuppositions or prior assumptions between the speaker and the recipient of speech. the speaker discusses his previous references to make hi...

This paper presents 1) a means of developing a decision procedure to help human taggers label utterances with speech acts, signiicantly increasing the chances of achieving intercoder reliability, and 2) a principled method for selecting a set of speech acts that successfully addresses a tradeoo between distinguishable speech acts at a high level of abstraction and informative speech acts at a l...

Few, if any, studies have investigated the effect of professional experience as a rater variable and type of assessment as a task variable on raters’ criteria in the assessment of speech acts. This study aimed to explore the impact of nonnative teachers’ professional experience on the use of criteria in monologic and dialogic assessment of 12 role-plays of 3 apology speech acts. To this end, 60...