Directive act of speech in the bourgeois comedy customs from 17th century: Toward modern language and usage patterns? I. Direct formulations This paper is meant as a contribution to Spanish historical pragmatics. It consists pragmalinguistic analysis directive acts five plays so-called introduced Spain by Enlightenment authors second half 18th century. The different linguistic expressions these...

Two hundred and four 5and 6-year-olds who were monolingual English-, bilingual English–Chinese-, or Chinese-speaking children beginning to learn English (2nd-language learners) were compared on phonological awareness and word decoding tasks in English and Chinese. Phonological awareness developed in response to language exposure and instruction but, once established, transferred across language...

Background: Several studies in interlanguage pragmatics have reported Russian directive speech acts to take a particular position within the dimensions of linguistic politeness and (in)directness, when compared some Germanic Romance languages extensively studied this framework.Purpose study: The present paper aimed investigate role language specific cues requests by examining their perception n...

Quentin Skinner’s appropriation of speech act theory for intellectual history has been extremely influential. even as the model continues to be important for historians, however, philosophers now regard the original speech act theory paradigm as dated. are there more recent initiatives that might reignite theoretical work in this area? This article argues that the inferentialism of Robert brand...


 Humans use language to give and receive information through various types of media, including audio visual media. In speech events, sentences show the intent purpose communicating. The words spoken by a speaker can indicate or speakers so that other people understand them more easily. every communication process, events acts occur. Speech are strongly influenced context situation. This i...

ly specify a certain language L in order to characterize the speech habits of a community P by saying that they are using that language and conforming to conventions involving it. 6 The uses of linguistic forms on which their semantics depends, and which therefore constitute the pragmatic basis for their semantics, are their past uses: what an expression means at time t in a given community dep...

Language and emotion are two related systems in use, in that one system (emotions) impacts the performance of the other (language). Both of them share their functionality in communication. Since the nature of foreign language classrooms is ideally interactional, emotional intelligence (EI) gains importance. The aim of this study was to find out whether one's total emotional quotient and its com...

The paper presents an analysis of speech rhythm development in second language. 51 German learners of English with varying degrees of proficiency were recorded producing 33 identical sentences of quasi-spontaneous speech. Durational characteristics of syllables, consonantal and vocalic intervals were calculated to allow for analysis of timing patterns on different proficiency levels. We found t...