In order to maintain a great means of communication between people, language use plays significant role in the interaction process. Within process among speaker and hearer comes with an act or action along that is called speech acts, which refers when person saying something, it hoped as what intends him her do. Speech acts are always found our daily basis, even films, advertisements, social me...

We study the implications for the expressive power of call/cc of upward continuations , speciically the idiom of using a continuation twice. Although such control eeects were known to Landin and Reynolds when they invented J and escape, the forebears of call/cc, they still act as a conceptual pitfall for some attempts to reason about continuations. We use this idiom to refute some recent conjec...

Expressives like damn and bastard have, when uttered, an immediate and powerful impact on the context. They are performative, often destructively so. They are revealing of the perspective from which the utterance is made, and they can have a dramatic impact on how current and future utterances are perceived. This, despite the fact that speakers are invariably hard-pressed to articulate what the...

Predicates of taste (e.g. fun), as well as interjections (e.g. wow), form a class of inherently subjective expression-types, consequently resisting straightforward treatment within truth-conditional semantics. While subjective expression-types semantically require an experiencer-argument, because that argument can potentially be set to anyone at all semanticists seem unable to explain how its v...

Illocutionary act is one type of speech acts which refers to the attempt accomplish some communicative purpose and extra meaning utterance produced on basis its literal meaning. This paper investigated illocutionary in talk show used by Oprah Winfrey J.K Rowling. The focus this explore five types utterances Those are representative (reporting, stating, concluding), directive (ordering, asking r...

This study focuses on how the speech acts violating politeness maxim in a novel titled Gerald’s Game are translated from English into Bahasa Indonesia. Therefore, this has three main objectives: (1) to find out types of act which could accommodate violation maxim, (2) translation techniques used translate (3) impact technique toward shift acts. adopted descriptive qualitative method. The data l...

Background:Addiction is regarded as one of the most important social issues influencing all aspects of people’s lives including personal, social, physical, and mental aspects. Given the increasing rate of the disease and its associated irreparable damages to a patient’s life and the community, this disease and its methods of preventing and treating should especially be taken into consideration....