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Macioti, Paola Gioia. "Language classes as acts of citizenship." Thesis, Open University, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.664519.

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This thesis is about the possibility of political transformation from the margins through language and language classes in the context of citizenship management, migration controls and exclusionary language policies in the European Union. To enquire into this argument, the thesis analyses the work of three different language classes projects in the UK, Germany and Spain, which, amongst other practices, teach the language to undocumented migrants and foster political mobilisation for their rights. By means of challenging exclusionary logics and dualisms, and pursuing a dialogic analysis of la~g

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Williams, Charles B. "The participle in the book of Acts /." Eugene, OR : WIpf & Stock, 2008. http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/dig/pres/2006-0229.

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Maybury, Mark Thomas. "Planning multisentential English text using communicative acts." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1991. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/237035.

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The goal of this research is to develop explanation presentation mechanisms for knowledge based systems which enable them to define domain terminology and concepts, narrate events, elucidate plans, processes, or propositions and argue to support a claim or advocate action. This requires the development of devices which select, structure, order and then linguistically realize explanation content as coherent and cohesive English text. With the goal of identifying generic explanation presentation strategies, a wide range of naturally occurring texts were analyzed with respect to their communicati

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BERRE, CARLA CHIAPPETTA LE. "DIRECTIVES SPEECH ACTS, IN ORAL LANGUAGE, IN THE BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2007. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=11177@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>O tema desta pesquisa é a realização dos atos diretivos, em língua oral, na cultura brasileira. A partir de pressupostos da teoria dos atos de fala, da sociolingüística interacional, do interculturalismo e da antropologia social, descrevemos e analisamos as formulações dos atos diretivos assim como as estratégias discursivas que atenuam ou reforçam o teor de imposição implicado na realização desses atos. Também classificamos os tipos de pedidos e ordens encontrados em nosso corpus de acordo com o nível de diretividade e identificamos

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Nancarrow, C. R. "Verbal humour : levels of expectation : an examination of strategies with a limited corpus /." Thesis, [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1985. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12324115.

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Curtin, Maureen Frances. "It is Time for Voices in "Between the Acts"." W&M ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625885.

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Beyssade, Claire, and Jean-Marie Marandin. "From complex to simple speech acts : a bidimensional analysis of illocutionary." Universität Potsdam, 2006. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2006/1031/.

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We present a new analysis of illocutionary forces in dialogue. We analyze them as complex conversational moves involving two dimensions: what Speaker commits herself to and what she calls on Addressee to perform. <br>We start from the analysis of speech acts such as confirmation requests or whimperatives, and extend the analysis to seemingly simple speech acts, such as statements and queries.<br> Then, we show how to integrate our proposal in the framework of the Grammar for Conversation (Ginzburg, to app.), which is adequate for modelling agents' information states and how they get updated.

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Leavell, Deborah Kay. "The avoidance of absolute commitment in speech acts: Modality." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2309.

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After defining speaker commitment as it pertains to propositional truth in speech acts and exploring influences and motivations that may effect speaker commitment, this thesis will introduce and define modality in the context of actual speech.

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Snyder, Julia Ann. "Language and identity in ancient narratives : the relationship between speech patterns and social context in the Acts of the Apostles, Acts of John, and Acts of Philip." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8956.

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Drawing on insights from sociolinguistics, the thesis investigates the relationship between speech patterns and social context in three ancient Greek narratives: the Acts of the Apostles, Acts of John, and Acts of Philip. The thesis explores how characters’ speech patterns correlate with their Christian status, and with the Christian status of their addressees. The relationship between speech patterns and gentile/Jewish identity is also assessed. Linguistic variables include plural forms of address and third-person references to Jesus and the Christian god. The thesis shows that Christian char

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Adolphs, Svenja. "Linking lexico-grammar and speech acts : a corpus-based approach." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.391412.

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Yu, Kyong-Ae. "A Linguistic study of culture-specific speech acts : politeness in English and Korean." St. Lucia, Qld, 2001. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16327.pdf.

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Hammonds, Phillip Edward. "Directive speech acts in conflict situations among advanced non-native speakers of English." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/252893.

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This study investigates tasks in which international graduate students who are non-native speakers of English must use a second or foreign language (L2) in simulated conflict and stressful situations with native speakers. In particular, the study examines conflicts where the non-native speaker (NNS) must issue a directive to a native speaker (NS) in order to achieve an important outcome or avoid unwanted or even dangerous consequences. Unlike previous studies which place equal or no emphasis on the consequences of the directive under investigation, this study focuses on the perlocutionary effe

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Hillman, George McCain. "Inference and speaker intent in Acts 3:12-26 and some translation implications." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p006-1563.

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José, Brian. "Speech acts as a focus of variation studies AAE vs. EAE /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2000. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=1570.

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MacQueen, Kenneth G. (Kenneth George). "Speech act theory and the roles of religious language." Thesis, McGill University, 1986. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=72800.

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Shata, Osama M. A. I. "A syntax analyser and case-marker generator for selected speech acts in Arabic." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.340905.

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This thesis describes the design and implementation of a syntax analyser and case-marker generator for selected speech acts in Arabic, named Rameses II. It is intended as a contribution to the field of natural language processing (NLP). The original motivation for this research was the fact that in one form of the Arabic writing system there are no diacritics. Diacritics are small marks placed above or below the main line of characters. It is hypothesised that I iterate users of Arabic supply these diacritics when the input text lacks them. A particularly important subset of diacritics are tho

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Ismail, Tief. "Traduction et analyse interactionnelle de dialogues cinématographiques en français : problématique des sous-titres en arabe." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LYO20010.

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Cette recherche aborde le dialogue du cinéma. Elle propose une description de quelques interactions verbales couramment présentes dans les échanges quotidiens à travers une analyse d’un corpus cinématographique composé de comédies récentes (Amélie Poulain, Quatre étoiles, la Doublure, Ah ! si j’étais riche, Moi, César…). Les résultats de cette étude fondamentalement descriptive, intéressent [a] le domaine de la relation entre la description des interactions et la didactique du français et de l’arabe langues étrangères ou langues secondes, et [b] la problématique de la traduction des sous-titre

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Abe, Satoshi. "Language as Practice and Self-Dialogization: Examination of Language and Self in Ta'arof." University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/110027.

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The relationship between language and self has interested anthropologists for a long time. They have raised, for example, such questions as follows: Is language (i.e., a corpus of vocabulary words) the representation of one's worldview? Or is it language that affects one's worldview? In this study I attempt to examine the relationship between language and self from a different angle; a self dialogized in the process of language interactions. Although comprehension of language structure (such as grammatical rules) among interlocutors is crucial for communication, there are other elements that i

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Bryant, Carmen J. "Unpacking the language of the faith translating theospeak /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Koo, Dohee. "Realizations of Two Speech Acts of Heritage Learners of Korean: Request and Apology Strategies." The Ohio State University, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1364218881.

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Hoppe, Patricia Ann. "Virginia Woolf's "Between the Acts" as an Extension of Woolf's Feminist Polemics." W&M ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625832.

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Tyler, Michael D., University of Western Sydney, and of Arts Education and Social Sciences College. "Orthography, phoneme awareness, and the measurement of vocal response times." THESIS_CAESS_XXX_Tyler_M.xml, 2002. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/295.

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Literacy is widespread, but little is known about its effect on cognitive processes. Research suggests that learning to read is beneficial because it fosters awareness of the structure of language, and orthographic images of words and letters may provide memory anchors for speech. The general hypothesis of this thesis is that orthographic images aid oral language activities. Adults who are illiterate perform poorly on initial phoneme manipulation tasks, suggesting that learning to read fosters phonemic knowledge. However, literate adults may use orthographic images to aid phoneme manipulation,

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Dorlando, Laura Morales. "A Computer-Based Course to Teach Speech Acts: Prototype for the Technology Assisted Language Learning Program." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2006. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1051.

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The following report discusses the design and formative evaluation of a prototype for a computer-based course to teach speech acts as part of the Technology Assisted Language Learning (TALL) program. The report includes a literature review on speech acts and current methods and strategies for language teaching and instructional design. Next, there is a description of the lessons and the design process, as well as a summary of the formative evaluation. Following is the prototype of the lesson on apologies. The report concludes with a discussion of the project's limitations and suggestions for f

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Подліняєва, І. "Лінгвістичні особливості мовних актів". Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2007. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/16604.

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Yu, Shengming. "The pragmatic development of hedging in EFL learners /." access full-text access abstract and table of contents, 2009. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/ezdb/thesis.pl?phd-en-b23749398f.pdf.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of Hong Kong, 2009.<br>"Submitted to Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 235-245)

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Epprecht, Elizabeth F. "The Roles of Silence in Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1191.

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In this thesis I explore the roles of silence in Virginia Woolf’s last novel, Between the Acts (1941). I focus on three readings of silence in the text. First, I consider her portrayal of malicious silences as unsaid judgments and aggressions and their impact on interpersonal relationships and interactions. Second, I look at detached, empty silence and its relation to the critical passivity Woolf noted in her audience in the early years of WWII. Finally, I consider silence as feminist resistance to traditional narratives through the intertwined experiences of Isa and Miss La Trobe.

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Lin, Chao Victor. "Speech acts in context : Chinese university students' use of apology and compliment strategies in English and Chinese." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2012. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1333.

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Chung, Sin Yi Maggie. "Instructional intervention and the learning of request acts : an exploratory study on secondary one students." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2007. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/853.

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Tyler, Michael Douglas. "Orthography, phoneme awareness, and the measurement of vocal response times /." View thesis View thesis, 2002. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20031219.123106/index.html.

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Ong, James Kwan Yau, and Reinhold Kliegl. "Conditional co-occurrence probability acts like frequency in predicting fixation durations." Universität Potsdam, 2008. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2011/5677/.

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The predictability of an upcoming word has been found to be a useful predictor in eye movement research, but is expensive to collect and subjective in nature. It would be desirable to have other predictors that are easier to collect and objective in nature if these predictors were capable of capturing the information stored in predictability. This paper contributes to this discussion by testing a possible predictor: conditional co-occurrence probability. This measure is a simple statistical representation of the relatedness of the current word to its context, based only on word co-occurrence p

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Wang, Jiayan. "A study of speech acts in U.S. presidential candidate." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2013. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1367.

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Pagmar, David. "Frequency, Form, and Distribution of Illocutionary Speech Acts in Swedish Parent-Child Interaction." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-131459.

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In this study, young children’s development of speech acts was examined. Interaction between six Swedish-speaking parents and their children was observed. The frequency, form and distribution of speech acts in the output from the parents were compared with the frequency, form and distribution of the children’s speech acts. The frequency was measured by occurrences per analysed session. The aim of the analysis was to examine if the parent’s behaviour could be treated as a baseline for the child’s development. Both the parents’ and the children’s illocutionary speech acts were classified. Each p

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Woodson, Julie Katherine. "The discourse function of the Greek article a consideration of its use with common personal nouns in Acts /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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D'Orlando, Laura Morales 1974. "A computer-based course to teach speech acts : prototype for the technology assisted language learning program /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2006. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1235.pdf.

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Polcar, Leah Elizabeth. "Towards understanding the processing of indirect speech acts: Reconsidering the standard pragmatic model of processing." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280495.

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This investigation tests whether a stage-type model of the processing of indirect speech acts is a fully explanatory model. A stage model, like the Standard Pragmatic Model (SPM), proposes that listeners understand the meaning of an indirect speech act by first determining direct meaning and then checking this meaning against context for sufficiency. It is only when direct meaning is found not to fully capture context that a listener proceeds to understand the meaning of an indirect speech act. This sort of model has been heavily criticized in the extant theoretical and empirical research, tho

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Boyce, Sarah, G. Martin, C. Skinner, K. Wetherholt, and N. Scherer. "Communicative Acts and Word Acquisition in Toddlers with Cleft Palate." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2010. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1536.

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Jones, Catherine Jacquelynn Julia. "Queclaratives in Xhosa : an acoustic and perceptual analysis." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52426.

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Thesis (PhD)--University of Stellenbosch, 2001.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Key words: acoustic speech analysis, speech synthesis, speech perception, copulative queclarative, linguistics, psycho linguistics, human language technology This study investigates the notion of interrogativity in Xhosa as expressed in the form of Queclaratives. Queclaratives, or statements which are question-like in function, have been studied in many languages of the world. Unfortunately with regard to the Bantu languages, studies relating to interrogativity in general have largely been impressionistic in nature.

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Oghanian, Mina. "A Contrastive Study of the Intercultural Differences in People’s Reactions Based on Their Cultures." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1481252360919345.

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Wong, Hoi-ming Hyman. "A study of pragmatic competence in ESL learners in Hong Kong with different grammatical ability." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B22359734.

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Butler, Clayton Dale. "The role of context in the apology speech act : a socio-constructivist analysis of the interpretations of native English-speaking college students /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3008292.

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Bean, Heidi R. "Poetry 'n acts: the cultural politics of twentieth-century American poets' theater." Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/638.

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"Poetry 'n Acts: The Cultural Politics of Twentieth-Century American Poets' Theater," focuses on the disciplinary blind spot that obscures the productive overlap between poetry and dramatic theater and prevents us from seeing the cultural work that this combination can perform. Why did 2100 people turn out in 1968 to see a play in which most of the characters speak only in such apparently nonsensical phrases as "Red hus the beat trim doing going" and "Achtung swachtung"? And why would an Obie award-winning playwright move to New Jersey to write such a play in the first place? What led to the f

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Teo, Peter Yoke Teck. "The language of receptivity in the book of Acts and its significance to evangelism and church growth." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.

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DuBord, Elise M. "Performing Bilingualism: An Ethnographic Analysis of Discursive Practices at a Day Labor Center in the Southwest." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195691.

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This ethnographic research examines the social implications of the ethnolinguistic contact that occurs in the U.S.-Mexico border region at a day labor center in Tucson, Arizona. I discuss the multiple values of English and Spanish in this setting and how individuals interpret and negotiate these values in the construction and performance of identity. More specifically, I analyze how discourses of linguistic capital shape the organization of this community and influence the dynamics of employment negotiations. The research setting includes immigrant day laborers (primarily from Mexico and Centr

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Alsohaibani, Ali. "Influence of religion on language use : a sociopragmatic study on the influence of religion on speech acts performance." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2017. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/66553/.

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Language and religion have both been considered as distinguishing and influential components of culture that interact with and influence each other. In an attempt to understand the relationship between religion and language, this study aims to examine the influence of religion on language as a communicative means, focusing on the effect of Islam and Islamic values and beliefs on the everyday language of Saudi speakers of Arabic. To explore the extent of religion’s influence on language use, the study focuses on the use of religious expressions in the performance of speech acts. It attempts to

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Lau, Yi. "A comparison of apology strategies in Chinese and English /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36845875.

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Lau, Yi, and 劉儀. "A comparison of apology strategies in Chinese and English." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45007615.

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Matuka, Yeno Mansoni. "The pragmatics of palavering in Kikoongo." Virtual Press, 1991. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/776693.

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Studies in African languages beyond the common core of linguistics are lacking. This motivates this dissertation which investigates the use of Kikoongo, a Bantu language, focusing on natural data produced by the Maniaanga of BesiNgombe region, Bas-Zaire, Zaire. The data are referred to as palavers. These consist of three complex speech events namely, wedding, bereavement and reconciliation viewed as instances of `conflict' management. Each of them is taken not only as a speech event but also as a highly structured sociocultural unit with linguistic implications.The study of palavering as a spe

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Gökdayi, Hürriyet. "The desire for sohbet : an ethnography of communication in Turkey /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10838.

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Gustafsson, Tova. "Acquiring Pragmatic Knowledge through Textbooks : Explicit Teaching of Speech Acts in EFL Textbooks in the Swedish Upper Secondary School." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-42573.

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Previous studies in the field have suggested that speech acts are underrepresented in EFL textbooks and that, in addition, these tend to have little or no presentation of meta-pragmatic information. In relation to these findings, the present study investigated the extent and manner in which speech acts are presented in EFL textbooks currently used in the Swedish upper secondary school. The focus was limited to explicit teaching of speech acts and, thus, does not present any information or findings concerning implicit teaching of speech acts or to what extent this is presented in the textbooks.

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Haley, Jamalieh. "Escalating Language at Traffic Stops: Two Case Studies." PDXScholar, 2017. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3887.

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In recent years, the public has seen a rise in recorded footage of violent encounters between police and Black American citizens, partially due to technology such as cell phones, dash-cameras, and body-cameras. This linguistic study examines how these encounters get escalated to the point of violence by asking 1) what kind of directives were used, 2) how were they responded to, 3) how the directives contributed to escalation, and 4) how might power and authority have played a role. I use two case studies to analyze directives and their responses. Findings reveal that repetition of directives o

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