Several dialogue types, including inquiry, persuasion and deliberation, transfer information between agents so that their beliefs and opinions may be revised. The speech acts in different dialogue types have different pragmatic implications. For a representative sub-type of persuasion dialogues we consider how they can be conducted efficiently, in terms of minimising the expected transfer of in...

A longitudinal study of the pragmatic characteristics of the Infant Directed Speech (IDS) of middle class Thai mothers when talking to their babies at birth (Newborn), and when the infants were 3-, 6-, 9-, and 12-months-old was conducted. Three aspects were investigated: (1) the verbal acts which the mothers use with their infants using the framework of Thai linguistic action verbs (LAVs), and ...

The focus of this paper is artificial voices with different personalities. Previous studies have shown links between an individual’s use of disfluencies in their speech and their perceived personality. Here, filled pauses (uh and um) and discourse markers (like, you know, I mean) have been included in synthetic speech as a way of creating an artificial voice with different personalities. We dis...

This study aims to present the types of illocutionary speech and describe functions in program "Dua Sisi" on TV One. research is a descriptive qualitative with pragmatic approach. The data source for this consists oral taken from video conversations One within time frame 2021-2022. data, which includes speech, was downloaded YouTube using methods observation, documentation, note-taking. finding...

This paper discusses how grammatical aspects of direct and indirect speech affect the evaluation argument from expert opinion. Direct is often characterized by having two different discourse acts and, consequently, deictic centres; regarded as one act with centre. These structures have pragmatic effects, mainly because in speech, reported content assumed to be faithful form content. In contrast...

This empirical study deals with language contact phenomena in Sistan. Code-copying is viewed as a strategy of linguistic behavior when a dominated language acquires new elements in lexicon, phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatic organization, etc., which can be interpreted as copies of a dominating language. In this framework Persian is regarded as the model code which provides elements for b...

Case markers in Korean are omissible in colloquial speech. Previous discourse studies of Caseless bare NPs in Korean show that the information structure of zero Nominative not only differs from that of overt Nominative but it also differs from that of zero Accusative in many respects. This paper aims to provide a basis for these semantic/pragmatic properties of Caseless NPs through the syntacti...

In Urama there are two clause-final particles, ka and ra, that encode a variety of both semantic and pragmatic meanings. While previous approaches have treated these particles as clause-type markers or evidential morphemes, this paper argues that one of these particles, ka, has another previously undocumented function in conversation: to mark speaker-knowledge and what the speaker assumes the a...

The  current  study  investigated  the  expression  of  disagreement  by  Iranian  advanced  English learners.  The  data  for  the  study  comprised  the  recorded  discussions  of  26  male  and  female interlocutors  in  three  different  settings:  1)  language  institute,  2)  home  environment,  and  3) university  setting.  Analysis  of  the  arguments  pointed  to  the  influence  of  c...