the issue of speech act is a significant issue in pragmatics. speech acts encapsulate lectionary, illocutionary and perloctionary forces. i have dealt with what is said in speech. what is said is an achieved action. to be achieved, this action depends on presuppositions or prior assumptions between the speaker and the recipient of speech. the speaker discusses his previous references to make hi...

In decision making, a widely used methodology to manage unbalanced fuzzy linguistic information is the linguistic hierarchy (LH), which relies on a linguistic symbolic computational model based on ordinal 2-tuple linguistic representation. However, the ordinal 2-tuple linguistic approach does not exploit all advantages of Zadeh’s fuzzy linguistic approach to model uncertainty because the member...

Quality function deployment QFD is a customer-driven approach for product design and development. A QFD analysis process includes a series of subprocesses, such as determination of the importance of customer requirements CRs , the correlation among engineering characteristics ECs , and the relationship between CRs and ECs. Usuallymore than group of one decisionmakers are involved in the subproc...