The purpose of this research was to examine how Korean and Japanese EFL learners’ speech act of compliment is transferred from their native cultures when they are interacting in English, and to investigate if the two cultural groups display different or similar strategies in giving and responding compliment. The subjects were 20 intermediate-level Korean and Japanese university students, who pa...

Intercultural communication is concerned with communication across cultures. Since cultures as well as languages differ from one another in significant ways, speakers conceptualize the world around them in different ways. These cultural conceptualizations form part of the collective cognition of a speech community or cultural group. This paper is an attempt to delineate some cultural schemas in...

In this paper we address the important task of automated discovery of speech act categories in dialogue-based, multi-party educational games. Speech acts are important in dialogue-based educational systems because they help infer the student speaker’s intentions (the task of speech act classification) which in turn is crucial to providing adequate feedback and scaffolding. A key step in the spe...

We discuss the use of data from a virtual world game for automated learning of words and grammatical constructions and their meanings. The language data is an integral part of the social interaction in the game and consists of chat dialogue, which is only constrained by the cultural context, as set by the nature of the provided virtual environment. This paper presents a preliminary exploration ...

This study aimed to describe the types of speech acts in ”Say It Loud” YouTube video by Azie and Evelyn. found that there were three John R. Searle’s video. Those are Locutionary Act, Assertive Illocutionary, Perlocutionary Act. The Illocutionary Act was most used concluded illocutionary perlocutionary make this interesting informative.
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The everyday act of speaking involves the complex processes of speech motor control. An important component of control is monitoring, detection, and processing of errors when auditory feedback does not correspond to the intended motor gesture. Here we show, using fMRI and converging operations within a multivoxel pattern analysis framework, that this sensorimotor process is supported by functio...

the international covenant on economic, social and cultural rights contains no provisions concerning complaint procedure. the covenant’s emphasize on the progressive realization of economic, social and cultural rights had generated the idea that those categories of rights were, in principle, unjusticiable. the adoption of the draft optional protocol to the international covenant on economic, so...

The theory of performative acts John Austin’s survived enough critics and modifications with some marginalization this author in philosophy. This article proposes to rethink the main ideas Austin through perspective integral role individual his abundance inner life that has especial value acts. offers detailed analyses texts them reflect on two applications area cultural anthropology Bible stud...