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Citing Literature. A speech act is an utterance that has a performative function, such as congratulating, greeting, inviting, ordering, and warning. Speech acts are basically of three types: (1) locutionary, (2) illo...
28 wrz 2023 · Speech acts form a vital part of any language curriculum and can be taught effectively to students from diverse cultural backgrounds (Grossi, 2009). However, there is currently a serious dearth of ...
1 sie 2021 · This study aimed at examining the use of speech acts and language functions in the 21st Century English for Libya Secondary 1, 2, and 3 course books and workbooks.
1 sty 2019 · This article reports on a quantitative and qualitative analysis of a series of seven senior high English textbooks used in China with a particular focus on their representation of speech acts.
26 sie 2018 · This study aims at: analyzing the five types of speech acts (assertives, commessives, directives, declaratives and expressives) pragmatically in some selected English high school. graduation ...
Description. Contents. Resources. Courses. About the Authors. Speech acts, those actions carried out mainly by means of language, are used in English in a range of complex ways. However, they have rarely been covered in English as a foreign language (EFL) materials and textbooks.
Summary. The basic concepts of speech act theory. Speech act theory originated during the 1950s in the ordinary language philosophy of J. L. Austin and continued most notably in the work of John Searle. The following discussion surveys its impact on literary studies up until 1990.
