Study on the Pragmatics of the Interpretation of Interrogative Language from the Perspective of Indirect Speech Act Theory—Take the Interpretation of Interrogations in the Summary Statement of Sun Yang’s Hearing as an Example

2020 ◽  
Vol 08 (02) ◽  
pp. 172-184
Author(s):  
宁宁 郭
Keyword(s):  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Indirect Speech ◽  
Summary Statement ◽  
Indirect Speech Act

What is an indirect speech act?

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-84
Author(s):  
Jörg Meibauer
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Illocutionary Force ◽  
Indirect Speech ◽  
Indirect Speech Acts ◽  
Getting Lost ◽  
Indirect Speech Act

Abstract The notion of an indirect speech act is at the very heart of cognitive pragmatics, yet, after nearly 50 years of orthodox (Searlean) speech act theory, it remains largely unclear how this notion can be explicated in a proper way. In recent years, two debates about indirect speech acts have stood out. First, a debate about the Searlean idea that indirect speech acts constitute a simultaneous realization of a secondary and a primary act. Second, a debate about the reasons for the use of indirect speech acts, in particular about whether this reason is to be seen in strategic advantages and/or observation of politeness demands. In these debates, the original pragmatic conception of sentence types as indicators of illocutionary force seems to have been getting lost. Here, I go back to the seemingly outdated “literal force hypothesis” (see Levinson 1983: 263–264) and point out how it is still relevant for cognitive pragmatics.

The Language of Advertising: Graphic, Grammar and Pragmatic Aspects

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrey Panteleev ◽  
Anastasija Inos
Keyword(s):  
Speech Act ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Indirect Speech ◽  
Advertising Discourse ◽  
Adverbial Modifiers ◽  
Indirect Speech Act ◽  
Pragmatic Aspects ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Modern Russian

This monograph deals with the problem of functioning peculiarities of graphic expressive means and grammar means in the language of modern Russian advertising. This research work treats the advertising discourse as a composite indirect speech act. Active use of adverbial modifiers of manner — deverbatives, elliptical and indefinite personal one-member sentences is characteristic of modern advertising texts. A most distinguishing feature of a modern advertising text is a mixture of Cyrillic and Latin fonts that contributes to the manifestation of an expressive potential of the application. The monograph is aimed at students of Philology, students major in Management and Marketing, masters, postgraduates, staff of higher educational establishments and all those who are interested in the Russian language.

scholarly journals Dempster-Shafer Theoretic Learning of Indirect Speech Act Comprehension Norms

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (06) ◽  
pp. 10410-10417
Author(s):  
Ruchen Wen ◽  
Mohammed Aun Siddiqui ◽  
Tom Williams
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Social Roles ◽  
Rule Learning ◽  
Indirect Speech ◽  
Robot Teams ◽  
Indirect Speech Acts ◽  
Indirect Speech Act

For robots to successfully operate as members of human-robot teams, it is crucial for robots to correctly understand the intentions of their human teammates. This task is particularly difficult due to human sociocultural norms: for reasons of social courtesy (e.g., politeness), people rarely express their intentions directly, instead typically employing polite utterance forms such as Indirect Speech Acts (ISAs). It is thus critical for robots to be capable of inferring the intentions behind their teammates' utterances based on both their interaction context (including, e.g., social roles) and their knowledge of the sociocultural norms that are applicable within that context. This work builds off of previous research on understanding and generation of ISAs using Dempster-Shafer Theoretic Uncertain Logic, by showing how other recent work in Dempster-Shafer Theoretic rule learning can be used to learn appropriate uncertainty intervals for robots' representations of sociocultural politeness norms.

scholarly journals Strategi Menyampaikan Keinginan Kalam Bahasa Jepang: Kajian Hairyo Hyougen

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Radhia Elita
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Indirect Speech ◽  
Indirect Speech Act

In interaction, there must be some variations occur due to the variation of social status or age. This might be brought about by situation and condition in communication process. For example is when delivering the desires to ask for time or to ask for dating. Offering tea is one strategy to exprees the desire in Japanesse culture. Indirect speech act commonly well-known as indirect culture (kansetsusei) is a kind of distinctive way of Japanesee people. This indirect speech act is also called  kansetsuteki hatsuwa koui. The indirect speach act in airyo hyougen  is a  strategy used to save interlocutor's face.

Speech Acts

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitchell Green
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Indirect Speech ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Indirect Speech Acts ◽  
Grammatical Mood ◽  
Semantic Properties ◽  
Made In

Speech acts are acts that can, but need not, be carried out by saying and meaning that one is doing so. Many view speech acts as the central units of communication, with phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic properties of an utterance serving as ways of identifying whether the speaker is making a promise, a prediction, a statement, or a threat. Some speech acts are momentous, since an appropriate authority can, for instance, declare war or sentence a defendant to prison, by saying that he or she is doing so. Speech acts are typically analyzed into two distinct components: a content dimension (corresponding to what is being said), and a force dimension (corresponding to how what is being said is being expressed). The grammatical mood of the sentence used in a speech act signals, but does not uniquely determine, the force of the speech act being performed. A special type of speech act is the performative, which makes explicit the force of the utterance. Although it has been famously claimed that performatives such as “I promise to be there on time” are neither true nor false, current scholarly consensus rejects this view. The study of so-called infelicities concerns the ways in which speech acts might either be defective (say by being insincere) or fail completely. Recent theorizing about speech acts tends to fall either into conventionalist or intentionalist traditions: the former sees speech acts as analogous to moves in a game, with such acts being governed by rules of the form “doing A counts as doing B”; the latter eschews game-like rules and instead sees speech acts as governed by communicative intentions only. Debate also arises over the extent to which speakers can perform one speech act indirectly by performing another. Skeptics about the frequency of such events contend that many alleged indirect speech acts should be seen instead as expressions of attitudes. New developments in speech act theory also situate them in larger conversational frameworks, such as inquiries, debates, or deliberations made in the course of planning. In addition, recent scholarship has identified a type of oppression against under-represented groups as occurring through “silencing”: a speaker attempts to use a speech act to protect her autonomy, but the putative act fails due to her unjust milieu.

scholarly journals Strategies to Create Polite Expressions in Indonesian Communication

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
I Nyoman Kardana ◽  
Made Sri Satyawati ◽  
I Gusti Ngurah Adi Rajistha
Keyword(s):  
Speech Act ◽  
Official Language ◽  
Indirect Speech ◽  
Language Level ◽  
Interview Technique ◽  
Proper Nouns ◽  
Observation Method ◽  
Indirect Speech Act ◽  
Passive Verbs

Indonesian is the national and official language that is widely used in Indonesia archipelago. It is commonly spoken for communication among tribes and for formal situation as well. Indonesian belongs to languages that do not have language-level. However, speakers of this language also want to make their Indonesian communication go on well and harmonically. For this reason, this study aims at finding out the strategies they have to create polite expressions in Indonesian communication. Based on data collected from informants living in Denpasar through observation method completed with interview technique, it was found that there are 5 strategies to create polite expressions when they have communication in Indonesian. The strategies cover (1) the the use of indirect speech act, (2) the use of particular person deixis, (3) the use of proper nouns, (4) the use of formal forms, and (5) the use of particular passive verbs. By those strategies the speakers do not have any problems when they have to use Indonesian in their communication.

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