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Section 2.2 focuses on directives as a type of speech act and discusses the characteristics which distinguish directives from other types of speech acts. Section 2.3 goes into the internal diversity of directives and describes the various SUbtypes that can be distinguished.
Directives are the class of speech acts that attempt to fit the world to the words; they are attempts by a speaker to get a hearer to do something. The class of directives as Searle proposed it encompassed a wide range of action verbs in English – command, request, plead, invite, permit, and many others – without distinguishing among them ...
19 wrz 2023 · In the present article, I will focus on the philosophical and theoretical foundations underlying directive speech acts, including a discussion of the various proposals for distinguishing between the subtypes of directives.
Bringing together current theories from pragmatics and cognitive linguistics, this book addresses this gap by providing a comprehensive model of directive speech acts and showing how to teach them to learners of English.
In the philosophy of language and linguistics, a speech act is something expressed by an individual that not only presents information but performs an action as well. [1] For example, the phrase "I would like the mashed potatoes; could you please pass them to me?"
15 gru 2018 · The speech act theory is one of the rigorous attempts to systematically explain the workings of language. It is not only widely influential in the philosophy of language, but in the areas...
16 lis 2020 · Summary. Chapter 4 applies the cognitive-constructional theoretical model of speech acts proposed in Chapter 2 to the task of providing an exhaustive description of the meaning and form of the six directive speech acts under consideration (i.e. orders, requests, beggings, suggestions, advice acts, and warnings).
