Social actions performed through language are the focal object of research on speech act realization (speech act research,1 for short) and conversation analysis, among other approaches to discourse that I will not consider here. Yet because of their di¤erent disciplinary origins and histories, the two approaches are interested in di¤erent aspects of social action mediated through language and, ...

the present study, on the one hand, attempted to investigate the strategies applied in dispreferred responses by iranian university students of english and the extent to which pragmatic transfer could occur.  on the other hand, the study aimed to probe into the association between dispreferred organization and turn-shape. to this end, 31 relevant naturally occurring conversations, totaling 120 ...

There was much speculation about the potential impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 on established principles of health care practice. Now the statute has been "bedded in", predictions that existing good practice would not fall foul of the legislation provided it was demonstrable, have proved to be broadly accurate. This paper illustrates the approach of the courts to areas of difficulty related...

Abstract This research aims to describe speech act form of angry expressive spoken by Comic Bintang Emon in social media about distanting. The method this is qualitative describing the data. data source Emon’s distancing. Collecting analysis used technique listening, reduction, and analysis. were analysed see how was relatedness speaker’s sociopragmatics. result strateries: literal direct unlit...

The analysis of a speech act is important for dialogue understanding systems because the speech act of an utterance is closely associated with the user’s intention in the utterance. This paper proposes a speech act classification model that effectively uses a two-layer hierarchical structure generated from the adjacency pair information of speech acts. The proposed model has two advantages when...

A method of analyzing Japanese utterances is developed for a new dialogue translation method, which is called the Intention Translation method. The analyzing method consists of two stages, (i) extraction of surface speech act types from input utterances, and (ii) extraction of less language-dependent speech act types from surface types. In the first stage, input utterances are analyzed in the u...

Dialogue-based intelligent tutoring systems use speech act classifiers to categorize student input into answers, questions, and other speech acts. Previous work has primarily focused on question classification. In this paper, we present a complimentary speech act classifier that focuses primarily on non-questions, which was developed using machine learning techniques. Our results show that an e...

This study attempted to investigate the effect of bilingualism on pragmaticawareness and development among Iranian Turkish/Persian EFL learners. Data werecollected through a personal profile questionnaire with questions about theparticipants’ language background and a WDCT with 10 situations to determine theextent to which the bilinguals demonstrated their pragmatic awareness of requests.They w...