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...

In the past decades, there has been much progress in the formal Semantics of ordinary language. Logicians, linguists and philosophers have extensively used logical formalisms in order to interpret directly or after translation important fragments of actual natural languages. They have thereby contributed to the foundations of the theory of sentence meaning. In formal Semantics, speaker meaning ...

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, ...

Alternative assessment approaches received considerable attention soon after a discontent with traditional, one-shot testing. These approaches, however, have been used only to improve learners’ linguistic ability despite communicative models of language which pointed that knowledge of language also involves pragmatic ability (Bachman, 1990; Bachman & Palmer, 1996). The present study tries to ex...

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...

The article considers the modal-semantic shades expressed by interrogative statements in Kazakh language, which are used to obtain not only certain information, but also express approval (consent), clarification, advice, indication, suggestion, comparison, attention (to cause a reaction), conclusion, justification, warning, permission, prohibition, refusal, objection, protest, coercion (concess...