This study was an attempt to shed light on the use of requestive speech act by Iranian nonnative speakers (NNSs) of English and Canadian native speakers (NSs) of English to find out the (possible) similarities and/or differences between the request realizations, and to investigate the influence of the situational variables of power, distance, context familiarity, and L1’s (possible) influence. ...

In intelligent tutoring systems with natural language dialogue, speech act classification, the task of detecting learners’ intentions, informs the system’s response mechanism. In this paper, we propose supervised machine learning models for speech act classification in the context of an online collaborative learning game environment. We explore the role of context (i.e. speech acts of previous ...

The present research study, based on a systematic procedure, investigates the impact of the illocu- tionary and locutionary forces of the pragmatic competence on the Iranian male and female language teaching juniors. By virtue of gaining a persuasive and forceful ultimate goal of this study 400 lan- guage teaching Iranian juniors attended this study. Phase 1 witnessed a T-test where 60 males an...

The article touches upon different aspects of promise – as a speech act, means communication. theme is analysed in its relation to various areas philosophical studies: the problem subject’s identity, society system interpersonal interactions, performative utterances and etc. methodological basis includes primarily act theory developed by J. Austin Searle’s speech-act theory, genetically related...

This paper presents the core of a descriptive theory of indirect speech acts, i.e. utterances in which one speech act form is used to realize another, different, speech act. The proposed characterization of indirect speech acts is based on principles of goal formation, viewed in the context of a general structural model of action. The model of action is used to develop rules that characterize a...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To reveal the decision-making process in patients considering participation in cancer phase I clinical trials. DESIGN Grounded theory approach. SETTING Cancer center in a metropolitan area of Tokyo, Japan. PARTICIPANTS 25 patients with cancer, including individuals who ultimately declined to participate in a phase I trial. METHODOLOGIC APPROACH Semistructured intervie...