Culture as the basis of speech acts can encourage speaker and listener to realize their goals in communication activities. The reasons are that culture make listeners want hear more about speaker's information, be media for illustrate implicature, them respond quickly. However, no specific research describes culture, response illocutionary effectiveness communication. Based on this problem, it ...

Abstract In this paper, we investigate a type of non-canonical question that is not information-seeking, but rather expresses the speaker’s surprise and/or disapproval with respect to event denoted by propositional part question. Our work empirically based on claims have been put forward in syntactic literature, and our study aims at assessing those theoretical about illocutionary status surpri...

In this paper we claim that a consistent conversational approach to human-computer interaction can be applied feasibly to multimodal interaction. A comprehensive conversational model is presented that covers interrelated levels of the dialogue structure, i.e. illocutionary, rhetorical, and topical aspects. It thus provides the basis for a consistent interpretation of the linguistic as well as g...

It is argued here that utterances in the imperative mood typically are embedded either explicitly or implicitly in Aristotelean practical arguments, i.e., arguments whose conclusions specify an action to be performed by an agent and whose premises provide justification for that action. It is argued further that the illocutionary force of an imperative, e.g., advice, warning, request, etc., is d...

A f ramework for t r a n s l a t i n g speake r ' s meaning or intention is proposed based on two notions, Illocutionary Force Types (IFTs) for analysis and Decision Parameters (DPs) for g e n e r a t i o n . IFTs are a c e r t a i n k i n d of classification of utterances concerning speaker's meaning. DPs present background information of language use in order to derive an appropriate expressi...