Speech acts are crucial in establishing and achieving a conversation's goal. The purpose of this research is to examine speech the Moxie movie. This study examines types illocutionary perlocutionary produced by main characters movie, Vivian Claudia. writer used two different theories conduct research: theory act Austin (1962, as cited Cutting, 2002) classification Searle (1975, Leech (1983, Pec...

objectives: reading is a language skill based on visual modality which recently is addressed as a facilitator of expressive language in children with down syndrome. the aim was designing a whole word reading protocol and examining its effects on the language skills of children with down syndrome. methods: a whole word reading protocol was developed and was examined through a single-subject stud...

The article analyzes mental representations of Russian lyrical prose texts. The texts demonstrate collective memory engrams that are defined by cultural and historical legacy of the nation and authors’ creative world perception. In architectonics of a lyrical prose text, sense perception reveals itself in accumulated underlying meanings and wisdom conveyed by expressive means. The author’s inte...

We discuss the FearNot! application demonstrator, currently being developed for the EU framework V project VICTEC. It details the language structure, content, interactions management and design of the FearNot! Demonstrator, as well as presenting the VICTEC project and its motivations. This paper also focuses on the different sets of Speech Act inspired language action lists developed for the pr...

In this paper, we merge speech act theory, emotion theory, and logic. We propose a modal logic that integrates the concepts of belief, goal, ideal and responsibility and that allows to describe what a given agent expresses in the context of a conversation with another agent. We use the logic in order to provide a systematic analysis of expressive speech acts, that is, speech acts that are aimed...

The ability to integrate sophisticated planning techniques with reactive execution systems is critical for nontrivial applications. Merging these two technologies is di cult because the forms of knowledge and reasoning that they employ di er substantially. The ACT formalism is a language for representing the knowledge required to support both the generation of complex plans and reactive executi...