Being a social human, people have way to express their hopes, which produces directive illocutionary act. Directive acts are fascinating phenomenon of acts. This research used theory from Searle (1979) find out the dominant three types speech act, Leech (1983) about Aspect Speech analyzed purpose The researcher descriptive qualitative approach collect data, data that founds source were by using...

Existing plan-based theories of speech act interpretation do not account for the conventional aspect of speech acts. We use patterns of linguistic features (e.g. mood, verb form, sentence adverbials, thematic roles) to suggest a range of speech act interpretations for the utterance. These are filtered using plan-bused conversational implicatures to eliminate inappropriate ones. Extended plan re...

We are developing and testing a computer model of conversation by constructing a program that engages its user in purposeful conversation to help him perform some task. Conversation is viewed as a sequence of actions performed by the participants, intentionally affecting each other's model of the world, primarily their beliefs and goals. These actions can only be performed if certain conditions...

The cooperative aspect of office work entails developing OIS systems which support office tasks that have to be executed in a collaborative manner. In particular, many systems have been developed using speech act elements as the theoretical underpinnings. Instead of using speech act elements, we USe operators (e.g., send, request and acknowledge) as basic building blocks. We have developed a kn...

condolence is part of austin’s expressive speech act and is related to searle’s behabitives illocutionary act. although a theoretically sound issue in pragmatics, condolence speech act has not been investigated as much as other speech acts in discourse-related studies. this paper aims at investigating interjections and intensifiers while performing condolence speech act among persian and englis...

I use the label verbs of communication to designate verbs of the following type: warn, admit, threaten, state, deny, request, guess and assert. All of these are verbs which refer to some aspect of an interaction between persons which at least partly involves communication. The term "verbs of communication" has been chosen rather than the otherwise common term "speech act verbs" since those aspe...