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Smith, Peter Wilfred Hesling. "Speech act theory, discourse structure and indirect speech." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1991. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/734/.

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Speech Act Theory is concerned with the ways in which language can be used. It originated with Austin, but was developed by Searle. The theories of Austin and Searle are described and several problem areas are identified. If it is to be a viable theory of language usage, speech act theory must be able to integrate with a theory of discourse structure, because if speech acts are identifiable as units of language, then it must be possible include them in a model of discourse. The second chapter examines discourse structure, examining two rival theories: the discourse analysis approach and the co

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Psomas, Patricia Noga. "Speech act theories of meaning." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.

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Egorova, Natalia. "Neurobiology of speech act processing." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648313.

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Manjiya, Monelwa Precious. "The speech act of complaining in isiXhosa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52579.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2001.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates the speech act of complaining in Xhosa. It is organized into six chapters. Chapter 1 states the aim of the study. The method, design and the organization of the study are also presented. In Chapter 2 the speech acts and politeness theories are presented as the basic framework of this study. It is clear that people do not only produce utterances, which contain grammatical structures and words when attempting to express themselves, but they always perform actions via those utterances. The actions peop

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Sibadela, Joyce Mukhethoni. "The speech act of greetings in Tshivenda." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53176.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2002.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The use of interpersonal verbal routines such as greetings is a universal phenomenon of human languages. All human speech communities have such formulas, although their character and the incidence of their use may vary enormously from one society to another. For several decades, greetings have been a recurrent object of inquiry for linguists and other human communication. Greetings are part of phatic communion, whereby people create ties of union and avoid silence, which is always alarming and dangerous. Communion among hu

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Cho, Pungyeon. "The speech-act theory in theological hermeneutics." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/66352.

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This dissertation offers an interdisciplinary analysis of some features of the Speech- Act Theory in biblical hermeneutics. It highlights some of the probable aspects of the studied analysis regarding hermeneutic issues within biblical and theological analysis. The paper shall describe the philosophical interpretation of the examination of the Speech-Act Theory. It will focus on the principles and standards of demarcating the Speech-Acts and allocating the written texts theory. The paper shall also describe the difference between ‘weak’ and ‘strong’ speech acts. The dissertation shall co

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Kawaguchi, Nobuo, Yukiko Yamaguchi, Shigeki Matsubara, and Shingo Kato. "Dialogue Structure Annotation of In-car Speech Corpus based on Speech-Act Tag." The oriental chapter of COCOSDA (The International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/15464.

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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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楊慧蘭 and Wai-lan Victoria Yeung. "The importance of consensus assessment in speech act comprehension." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31223813.

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Mangwegape, Bridget Kesaobaka. "The speech act of apology in Setswana educational contexts." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50527.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2005.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: An apology in Setswana is offered ;when an individual has violated a social norm or want to restore any form of a complainable. When it is given, it serves as a remedial work,designed to smooth over any social disruption that was caused. Sometimes a person who is suppose to apologize may find reasons to minimize the degree of the offence. If the offence in question is big, a verbal apology may be insufficient to restore the damaged relationship. Male and female learners commit a lot of offences towards each other at school a

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Makhado, Avhatakali Jonathan. "The speech act of apology in Tshivenda educational contexts." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53175.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2002.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: An apology in Tshivenda is offered when an individual has violated a social norm or want to restore any form of a complainable. When it is given, it serves as a remedial work, designed to smooth over any social disruption that was caused. Sometimes a person who is suppose to apologize may find reasons to minimize the degree of the offence. If the offence in question is big, a verbal apology may be insufficient to restore the damaged relationship. Male and female learners commit a lot of offences towards each other at school

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Ward, Karen. "A speech act model of air traffic control dialogue /." Full text open access at:, 1992. http://content.ohsu.edu/u?/etd,228.

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Sombhane, Mihloti Penelope. "The speech act of apology in Xitsonga educational contexts /." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/1803.

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Yeung, Wai-lan Victoria. "The importance of consensus assessment in speech act comprehension /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21806329.

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Fitzpatrick, Jessica, M. Ringley, T. Barber, C. Newell-Light, and Kerry Proctor-Williams. "Prelinguistic Communication Act Rates at Transition to First Words." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2007. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1848.

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Mildinhall, J. W. "The role of speech act use in computer-mediated communication." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.520582.

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Ngcobo, Lazarus. "The speech act of advice in educational contexts in isiZulu." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50191.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2004.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study focuses on the communicative processes of advice in isiZulu through which people aid each other with problems and stresses of daily life, including ways in which support is communicated. When friends or family members attempt to help one another with stress and problems, they frequently give advice. Within the field of pragmatics, advice is a common but potentially face-threatening response to a friend or a loved one who is upset about a problem. Consequently it is useful to identify ways a speaker may show regar

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Mogase, Emily Phuti. "The speech act of advice in educational contexts in Setswana." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50192.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2004.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study examines data from advice-giving in Setswana relating to pragmatic theorists' argument that every human interaction, to a large extent carries with it an element of threatening one or both participants' face. The speech act of politeness has been identified as one of the most effective speech acts to be employed in giving as well as soliciting advice. Every speech act is influenced by contextual, cultural and many other background factors associated to age, gender and rank to mention a few, which contribute towar

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Raliphaswa, Samuel Nndanduleni. "The speech act of advice in educational contexts in Tshivenda." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50526.

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Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2005.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study examines data from advice-giving in Tshivenda relating to pragmatic theorist's argument that every human interaction, to a large extent carries with it an element of threatening to one or both participant's face. The speech act of politeness has been identified as one of the most effective speech acts to be employed in giving as well as soliciting advice. Every speech acts is influenced by contextual, cultural and many other background factors associated to age, gender and rank which contribute towards how a s

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Oishi, Etsuko. "Indicating and referring : a speech act approach to communicative meaning." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22531.

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It is a standard and generally accepted view that semantics deals with context-independent truth-conditional meaning and pragmatics deals with context-dependent non-truth-conditional meaning. This thesis redefines the dichotomy between semantics and pragmatics on the basis of conventionality of meaning, and provides a theory of semantic meaning where meanings are described as what a speaker expresses by means of conventionalised linguistic devices. In Chapter 1, the standard dichotomy of semantics and pragmatics is introduced from a historical perspective concerning how the field of pragmatics

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Sibley, R. (Robert Cameron) Carleton University Dissertation Canadian Studies. "The poetics of dispossession: a tracking of George Grant's Speech-Act." Ottawa, 1991.

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Oliveira, de Sousa Felipe. "Reason-giving as an act of recognition." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25838.

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This thesis defends the claim that reason-giving is a discrete type of speech act (of an expressive kind) that has a distinctive value. It further argues that this value is best understood in terms of recognition, rather than justification, and that it is intrinsic to reason-giving. Its main aim is to argue against the commonly-held view that the main, sometimes the only, value to reason-giving lies in its capacity to provide justification (and in the related claim that if reasons cannot justify, then reason-giving has no value). The argument presented is intended to support that recognition (

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George-Castagna, Susan. "Getting things done in Naples - a description of Neapolitan directives in discourse." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.293157.

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Wakefield, P. Jane. "Young children’s speech act comprehension : the role of linguistic and contextual information." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25531.

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This study addresses the question of the necessity of propositional content in children's comprehension of speech acts. In investigating this aspect of communicative competence in children the study considered the relative importance of age (3, 4), context (Requests, Questions, and Offers), and quantity of propositional content. Two factorial experiments were conducted in which 54 three and four-year-old children were administered a discrimination task, where, through puppet play, contexts were constructed for utterances in order to simulate particular speech acts. Judgments of the illocutiona

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Thornton, Donald Jr. "Cyberbullying and the First Amendment in Schools| Protected Speech or Punishable Act?" Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3622960.

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<p> School administrators struggle with an emerging threat to school safety-cyberbullying. When does a school administrator have authority to punish a student for off-campus, online speech? When does a student cross the line from protected speech to punishable act? The Supreme Court of the United States has yet to decide such a case that would provide school administrators with a standard to utilize when faced with cyberbullying on campus. This dissertation will examine current research, case law, state statutes, and current cyberbullying frameworks put forth by Williams (2008), and King (2010

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Gungormezler, Tugce. "AN INVESTIGATION OF THE REFUSAL SPEECH ACT OF TURKISH LEARNERS OF ENGLISH." Kansas State University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/32848.

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Master of Arts<br>Department of Modern Languages<br>Li Yang<br>This study investigates and compares politeness strategies of Turkish learners of English (TLE) and American English speakers (AE) when they produce the speech act of refusal in English. A total of 24 participants took part in this study and each of them completed a background survey, an open role play and a semi-structured interview. The role-play asked all of the participants to refuse a party invitation offered by a classmate/colleague and was audio-recorded. The refusal interactions were coded according to the classification pr

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Ahmed, Ayad Hammood. "The pragmatics of apology speech act behaviour in Iraqi Arabic and English." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/14293.

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This study is concerned with examining the speech act of apology by Iraqi Arabic native speakers (IANs) and Iraqi English foreign language learners (EFLL). It aims at examining the strategies and functions of apologies produced by two groups of participating speakers as well as their perceptions of apology. This study is significant and necessary for the field of pragmatics and politeness theories. It represents a new cultural study that has not been previously examined. From pragmatic and politeness perspectives, all previous research has focused on the realization of apologies rather than ho

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Briggs, Richard. "Speech act theory and biblical interpretation : toward a hermeneutic of self-involvement." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1999. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/10958/.

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This thesis presents an interdisciplinary study in certain aspects of biblical hermeneutics from the point of view of speech act theory. After an introduction indicating the possible scope of such a study in relation to well established hermeneutical issues within theological and biblical studies, the thesis falls into two parts. In part one, the philosophical claims of speech act theory are examined. A particular focus is the question of criteria for demarcating speech acts and for appropriating the theory for the case of written texts. A distinction between 'strong' and 'weak' speech acts is

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Gilfillan, Upton Bridget. "Hearing Mark's endings : listening to ancient popular texts through speech act theory /." Leiden : Brill, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb401781307.

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Asquith, Nicole. "Speech Act Theory, Maledictive Force and the Adjudication of Vilification in Australia." Network Books, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/3897.

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Weywadt, Christina R. "Lateralization of pragmatic processsing : a visual half-field investigation of speech act processing." Virtual Press, 2004. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1292992.

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The current study utilized a priming paradigm in conjunction with a visual halffield presentation to determine if the right hemisphere contributes to pragmatic processing. Primes included conversational dialogues that either performed a speech act or did not. The targets identified the speech act and were presented to one of the two visual fields (lvf-RH or rvf-LH). It was hypothesized that the right visual field-left hemisphere (rvf-LH) would be more accurate and faster at identifying targets regardless of the script type that preceded it and the left visual field-right hemisphere (lvf-RH) wo

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Kim, Duck-Hyun. "Rethinking the movement from text to sermon in the light of speech act theory." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/71735.

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Thesis (MTh)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research endeavors to make a more satisfactory connection between the text and sermon by utilizing the speech act theory (SAT). In the light of SAT, the movement from text to sermon is neither simply to be viewed as finding timeless principles, meanings, big ideas from Scripture nor to emphasize a human experience in the modern world to serve as a re-narration of the text. Rather, the homiletical bridge in SAT has to be considered as the performative action of the text itself. The essence of interpretation in preaching is t

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Bełza, Anna. "A questionnaire-based comparative study of Irish English and Polish speech act of requesting." Doctoral thesis, Katowice : Uniwersytet Śląski, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/5206.

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Przedmiotem niniejszej rozprawy doktorskiej jest analiza porównawcza jednego z grzecznościowych aktów mowy, a konkretnie, aktu mowy wyrażania próśb w komunikacji interpersonalnej pomiędzy przedstawicielami dwóch różnych społeczności językowo-kulturowych: irlandzkiej i polskiej. Autorka przeprowadziła pragmatyczna analizę kontrastywną próśb używanych w różnych kontekstach w angielszczyźnie irlandzkiej oraz w języku polskim, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem różnic i podobieństw na płaszczyźnie leksykalnosyntaktycznej. Badanie miało również charakter ilościowy – dla lepszego zilustrowania dyskutowa

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Minton, Bernard J. "What not to do with words : uses of speech act theory in Biblical hermeneutics." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/7316/.

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This thesis examines some of the ways in which a particular theory of language known as Speech Act theory has been used as a hermeneutic tool, in particular in relation to Biblical hermeneutics. It begins by outlining the context in which the theory was conceived, and gives a brief description of Speech Act theory and some of its problems. Thereafter, some specific problems relating to the theory’s use as a Biblical hermeneutical tool are explored. These are, firstly, the fact that Speech Act theory relates explicitly to spoken language, but is being proposed as a textual tool; secondly that t

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Alqahtani, Sharifh A. "CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON OF SAUDI AND AMERICAN STUDENTS IN THE SPEECH ACT OF REFUSAL." OpenSIUC, 2015. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1608.

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This study investigated how American and Saudi students realize the English speech act of refusal in an ESL setting. It presented cross-cultural comparisons of the performance of American native speakers of English as well as ESL Saudi speakers. The study examined how culture affected the realization of refusal and the direct and indirect strategies associated with refusals. It also aimed to investigate whether gender influenced refusals and related strategies. Four groups of participants were involved in this study: 15 American men, 35 American women, 24 Saudi men, and 15 Saudi women. The dat

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Koh, Soong-Hee. "The speech act of request: A comparative study between Korean ESL speakers and Americans." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2272.

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This is a comparative study of Korean students' request forms and aspects of their culture that has not been recognized in the field of speech. This offers an explanation for miscommunication between Korean speakers of English and native speakers of English. Lastly, this study provides empirical information about how Korean students use request forms and how Koreans' politeness strategies differ from Americans'.

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Teufel, Charla Margaret. "A Cross-cultural Study of the Speech Act of Refusing in English and German." PDXScholar, 1996. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5212.

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Language students must learn to communicate effectively in cross-cultural settings, avoiding unwitting violations of culturally determined norms of behavior. This study compares German learners of English ( GEs) with native speakers of English ( AEs) and German (GGs), studying pragmatic transfer associated with the face-threatening speech act of refusal. Data elicitation involved a written role-play questionnaire composed of twelve refusal situations, including four refusal stimulus types (requests, invitations, offers, and suggestions) and interlocutors of higher, lower, and equal status. Res

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Ferrar, Madeleine. "The logic of the ludicrous : a pragmatic study of humour." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1993. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1317896/.

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This thesis represents an attempt to show how recent research in pragmatic theory can contribute to our understanding of humour. Two inferential theories have been selected: speech act theory and relevance theory. In addition, I have looked at the modification of the speech act model proposed by Leech. An exposition of each theory is followed by an account of how these theories can be applied to humour. Some research into humour has already been carried out using the speech act model. This is described and evaluated. For Leech's extension of that model, and for the relevance-theoretic model, t

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Galliers, J. R. "A theoretical framework for computer models of cooperative dialogue, acknowledging multi-agent conflict." Thesis, Open University, 1988. http://oro.open.ac.uk/57042/.

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This thesis describes a theoretical framework for modelling cooperative dialogue. The linguistic theory is a version of speech act theory adopted from Cohen and Levesque, in which dialogue utterances are generated and interpreted pragmatically in the context of a theory of rational interaction. The latter is expressed as explicitly and formally represented principles of rational agenthood and cooperative interaction. The focus is the development of strategic principles of multi-agent interaction as such a basis for cooperative dialogue. In contrast to the majority of existing work, these ackno

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Moström, Erik. "Speech act classification : A comparison of algorithms for classifying out of context utterances with DAMSL." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-142512.

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With the growing of everyday automation the need for better speech understanding in machines increases. A unsolved problem in speech processing is the automatic recognition of speech acts. A speech act is a utterance which fills a function in the communication. This problem is approached in this thesis by fitting classifiers using machine learning algorithms. The algorithms used are Linear Support Vector Classifier, Multinomial Naive Bayes, Decision Tree, and Perceptron. The N-gram model was used in combination with a tf-idf to extract features. Utterances are used out of context for the tests

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Wenk, Matthias. "The Holy Spirit and the ethical/religious life of the people of God in Luke-Acts." Thesis, Brunel University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.264349.

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Lingo, Sarah Katherine. "They Blush Because They Understand: The Performative Power of Women's Humor and Embarrassment in Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/81276.

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In this project, I analyze women's humor in three of Jane Austen's novels: Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma. Using speech-act theory, I specifically examine Elizabeth's, Emma's, and Mary's utterances to demonstrate that in order for humorous utterances to be subversive, they must challenge societal or patriarchal constructs (religion, misogynist men, marriage, the feminine ideal) and do so artfully. An indirect speech act--a play on words, an insult, even a laugh--is often far more effective than a more direct one, especially when wielded by characters for whom a direct antagonist

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Yao, Kanako. "The Significance of Apology in Japanese Account-Giving." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1313467728.

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Mulamba, Kashama. "Apologizing and complaining in Ciluba, French, and English : speech act performance by trilingual speakers in Zaire." Virtual Press, 1991. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/774770.

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Most studies of pragmatic aspects of language learning have dealt mainly with two languages, a native language and a second or foreign language. None of these studies has investigated a multilingual situation where there is interaction among three different languages spoken by one person. Neither have they dealt with an African language as the first language.The present study was designed to discover the norms of the three languages under investigation and to see how people speaking a second and a foreign language, with different levels of fluency in each, can participate in the activity of th

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Al-Adaileh, Bilal Abdal Majeed. "The speech act of apology : a linguistic exploration of politeness orientation in British and Jordanian culture." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2007. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/202/.

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Through an investigation of the realisation patterns of apologies in British English and Jordanian Arabic, this study presents an account of politeness phenomena in Jordanian culture as compared to British culture. A comparison is thus made between the British conceptualisation of the pragmatic notions of face and politeness and their Jordanian equivalents. In order to arrive at better understanding of how politeness operates in each of the cultures under study, it was decided to linguistically examine the act of apologising within the theoretical framework of Brown & Levinson's (1978,1987) mo

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Cho, Anna. "The Presence of the Kingdom in the light of the Speech Act Theory (SAT) : an ethical inquiry." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97965.

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Thesis (MTh)--Stellenbosch University, 2015.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis relates Christian ethics to the presence of the kingdom of God in Jesus’ sayings and to its real meaning and application by reconsidering the religious language of the kingdom of God from the perspective of the Speech Act Theory (SAT). In SAT, the Christian ethical approach to the presence of the kingdom in Jesus’ sayings is not only aimed at reconstructing meanings of the ethics of the kingdom in the form of a propositional morality theme. It also aims at reconstructing the Christian life as the performance of the e

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Kazemi, Zadeh Gol Narges. "A Contrastive Study of the Speech Act of Refusal; Iranian ESL Learners and Native English Speaking Americans." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1370217643.

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Yang, Lihong. "Speech Act of Request: A Comparative Study of Chinese and American Graduate Students at an American University." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1256582773.

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Britt, Brian M. ""Are You Speaking?": A Speech Act Analysis of Pinter's A Kind of Alaska and No Man's Land." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1396969120.

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Marriott, Jane Elizabeth Clare. "Campaign finance regulation and expressive rights : a comparative study." Thesis, Brunel University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324780.

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