Speech Act Analysis Research Articles

A Pragmatic Analysis of Speech Acts in Short Surahs of the Holy Quran

A Pragmatic Analysis of Speech Acts in Short Surahs of the Holy Quran

Speech Acts Analysis on Teaching and Learning Process Used by the Teacher in MAN 2 Mataram in Academic Year 2016-2017

This study was aimed at finding out Speech Acts Analysis on Teaching andLearning Process used by the Teacher in MAN 2 Mataram in Academic year 2016/2017. The method of this research is qualitative research The data of this research were the utterances performed by the Teachers of MAN 2 Mataram. The research instrument was the researcher himself. Participant is the subject from which the data obtained (Arikunto, 2010: 172)The Researcher’s participant actively classification speech act by the Teachers on teaching and learning process.T he instrument of data by using video camera and observation. To analyze the data Based on Louis (2005:181). This study used observation and video recording as an instrument of data collection, the researcher applied coding system. In this research, there are two validity principles applied by the researcher. The results of the research show that there are three classifications of speech act performed by the Teachers in the aching and learning process . The results of the research show that there are three classification of speech act performed by the Teachers in the aching and learning process. they are 4 data of locutionary act , 30 data of Illucotionary act, 7 data of Perlocutionary act . So the total of data were 41 data of speech act are used By the Teachers in MAN 2 Mataram.

KALEMBO ADE AS AN INSTRUMENT OF RESOLVING CONFLICT AMONG MBOJO COMMUNITY: A STUDY ON SPEECH ACT

This study aims at describing variation of meaning carried in kalembo ade as an instrument of resolving conflict among individuals and groups in Mbojo community by applying speech act analysis. Data were collected from speech events in Mbojo community and further analyzed descriptively. One type of speech acts was taken by considering its relevancy towards to focus of this study, i.e. expressive. Results showed that kalembo ade dealt with one of types of speech acts, i.e. Expressive type. The expression was found to reflect some actions, including condolences, apologies, greetings, thanksgivings, refusal, and congratulations. Hence, by viewing the context of usage, members of Mbojo community used this expression as an instrument in communication to resolve conflict, in which the phrase was used as tool to control verbal interaction during a speech event.

Analysis of Lecturers' Speech Actions in Learning Interaction and Its Implications for Student Interest in Arabic Literature Students of UMI

This study discusses the use of speech acts by lecturers and students in the learning process and their implications for increasing student interest in learning Arabic at the Muslim University of Indonesia. The method used is a qualitative analysis method with a speech act analysis approach. Lecturer and student communication events are an important indicator in the learning process because they have an impact on the level of student interest in learning towards the learning material presented in the lecture. The purpose of this study was to analyze the types of speech acts used by lecturers on students and to analyze the impact of their influence on the level of student interest in learning in the learning process at the Arabic Literature Department. This research is expected to theoretically be able to contribute to the development of pragmatics, especially speech acts. and practically this research is expected to make a positive contribution to the development of the alma mater and language character education which creates positive duplication in speech and contains ethical and proportional cultural values. The results show that seen from the way of delivery, the speech acts used are more direct, which is called the meaning of locus than the way of delivery that is indirect (indirect) or is called the meaning of illocution. However, in perlocution, the lecturers' speech acts towards students received a positive response or attitude from most students (ranging from 60-65 percent). It can be argued that although most of the direct speech acts are used, they can be colored by the use of utterances according to the guidance of the quranic speech act patterns, so that the acts.

The Semantics and Pragmatics Analysis of Javanese and English Apologetic Speech Acts

Reconsidering the role of apologizing as one of fundamental aspects in speech act learner has become important nowadays. It is argued that acquiring apologizing speech act can build their attitude. The purpose of this study is analyzing semantic and pragmatic of Javanese apologetic speech act, especially with respect how Javanese apologetic speech act expression differ conceptuallyfrom English expression. In order to fi nd out the differences between Javanese apologetic speech act nuwun sewu”and English speech act sorry, I used the natural semantic metalanguage proposed by Wierzbicka (1987). Furthermore, I described some distinguishable features of Javanese culture as well. By using Blum-Kulka (1989) and her collaboration model, I analyzed Javanese apologyspeech act strategies found in several conversations and situations. The fi ndings of my study are the attitudinal meanings of nuwun sewu and sorry, as well as the illocutionary acts associated with the two expressions are different. My study further suggests that conceptualizing speech act expressions, using semantically simple words, may help second learners acquire the proper ways of using speechacts in the target language and culture.

Measuring pragmatic competence on the functional and lexical level: The development of German high-school students' requests during a stay abroad in Canada

Measuring pragmatic competence is a methodologically difficult endeavour, but is of great importance to contexts like stays abroad, which are conducive to changes in pragmatic abilities. We propose a mixed-method approach to this issue, using functional speech act analysis alongside a newly developed method for lexical analysis. Both methods are used to evaluate the development of pragmatic competence in German high-school students before and after a 10-month stay in Canada, with corresponding Canadian native speaker data for direct comparison. Specifically, requests produced by 17 learners in a DCT format are analysed both from a functional and a lexical perspective and compared to a corpus of 108 native speakers' utterances.Our findings show that both methods have their strengths relative to the respective focus of the analysis. The lexical analysis is a valuable addition in that it quantitatively captures learners ability to use the same lexical material as native speakers for the same purposes, allowing for a close description of intra-individual longitudinal development. This method is sensitive to the learners' increased utterance length, a feature that we take for a sign of increased competence. Ideally, both methods should be used in combination, resulting in both a broader and more detailed characterisation of pragmatic competence and its development over time.

Analisis Tindak Tutur Pidato Presiden Jokowi Pada APEC 2014 Di Cina

This research is entitled “the analysis of illocutionary speech act of president Jokowi in APEC, China 2014”. The research was aimed at exploring and identifying speech acts uttered by president Jokowi in his presidential speech in China, 2014. Levinson (1983) proposed that the interest of pragmatic study was based on its empirical and descriptive way. Hence, this research was aimed at exploring and identifying illocutionary forms uttered by president Jokowi in his presidential speech in China, 2014. The research shows that factors of situation, place, topic, speaker and context play significantly as important roles. The form of structure of the speech was more on representative functioning to inform and invite.

Analysis of Politeness Speech Acts Thanking in Japanese By Indonesian Students: Study Case By Students Majoring in Japanese Literature at Bung Hatta University

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Analysis of Speech Acts During Speaking Classes at SMP PGRI 5 Denpasar

This study aimed at and analyzing the types of speech act and the functions of speech act during EFL learning in SMP PGRI 5 Denpasar. The study was designed in the form of descriptive qualitative study which involved an English teacher and eight grade students at SMP PGRI 5 Denpasar. The theory of Searle (1979) was used as the grand theory for analyzing the speech act types and Leech’s (1991) was used for the analyzing the function of the speech act. The data were obtained through observing, recording and note taking. The instrument used in this study were researcher (the main instrument), observation sheet, and video recording (the additional ones). The data were analyzed descriptively. The types of speech acts used in EFL learning were directives, representatives, commisisves, expressives, and declaratives category. In EFL learning mostly created speech acts for the competitive, collaborative, convivial, and conflictive function.

AN ANALYSIS OF DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH ACTS PERFORMED BY MAIN CHARACTER IN THE MOVIE REVENANT SCRIPT

This Research Entitled “An Analysis Of Direct And Indirect Speech Acts Performed By Main Character In The Movie Revenant Script”. This research was a descriptive analysis that discusses direct and indirect speech acts in movie script entitled ‘The Revenant.’ In analyzing the script, there was used theory by Yule (1996).The data in this research based on main characters’ utterances. The purpose of this analysis was to find out the types, and functions of speech act whether it is direct speech act or indirect speech act in the movie script entitled ‘The Revenant.’ From the analysis, it was found that both direct speech acts and indirect speech acts are used by main characters in this movie. The most dominant type of speech act used in the movie script was direct speech act (13 utterances) and then followed by indirect speech act (9 utterances). The direct speech act was classified again into declarative type (2 utterances) imperative type (5 utterances) and interrogative type (6 utterances). Indirect speech acts were also classified again into declarative type (8 utterances) and Interrogative (1 utterance). For the functions, direct speech acts are classified into the statement (2 utterances), order/request (5 utterances), and the last function of the question (6 utterances). Indirect speech act also classified into question (9 utterances), and no functions of statement and order. Based on the result, the researcher found that Felicity Conditions and genre were the factors affected main characters in producing direct speech acts more than indirect speech acts.

Pragmatic Annotation for a Multi-Layered Analysis of Speech Acts: A Methodological Proposal

Within the recently-coined sub-field of corpus pragmatics, one of the areas of interest is the study of speech acts and, specifically, how it can profit from the adoption of this methodological approach. However, the acknowledged lack of correspondence between speech acts and linguistic forms makes basic form-based corpus searches unreliable in retrieving speech acts from a corpus. In fact, function-to-form corpus research can prove much more fruitful in carrying out this kind of study, but it usually requires time-consuming manual annotation, which in turn means that there have been few attempts to employ this methodology. As a contribution in this new direction, this study will showcase a function-to-form approach to investigating speech acts of agreement and disagreement in spoken Catalan. Through this example, this paper aims to show the benefits of designing, compiling, transcribing and, especially, annotating one’s own corpus for the study of speech acts. In order to annotate data for the study of speech acts, a complex and multi-layered annotation system was designed and manually applied, so that all the different aspects that play a relevant role in the expression of agreement and disagreement could be covered. In addition to discussing the findings from this study, it is argued that the possibilities of exploitation provided by the resulting annotated corpus far outweigh the time cost and open the door to in-depth analyses of speech acts and politeness in naturally occurring spoken data.

The Pentateuch: Exodus–Deuteronomy

The PentateuchExodus–Deuteronomy Christopher T. Begg, Isaac M. Alderman, and Fred W. Guyette 1800. [Exodus] Pablo R. Andinach, “Encuetro entre la terra y el cielo en la liberación de los esclavos de Egipto,” RevCT 24 (2016) 41–65. A. reads the Book of Exodus as the presentation of a God who opens up a space that makes possible a meeting between himself and his people. This space is a privileged place to which one gains access by faith, whereby in times of oppression, anguish, and hopelessness [End Page 627] people turn to God as one who is solicitous of the needs of the poor and oppressed. Among the book’s key texts that serve to ground such a reading are those concerning the birth of Moses, the plagues of Egypt, the revelation of the divine name and its meaning, etc. Throughout the book, one notices God’s predilection for those who suffer oppression and put their faith in his liberating will. The approach to the book taken by A. favors a literary and symbolic reading of its narrative that seeks to explore the dynamics of the interactions among its characters and their function within the story’s unfolding. By way of conclusion, A. offers a synthesis of the biblical theology that emerges from his reading of Exodus. [Adapted from published abstract—C.T.B.] 1801. [Exodus] Siegbert Riecker, “Die Erkenntnisverheißung im Buch Exodus: Ein verunglückter Sprechakt?” JAJ 8 (2017) 26–41. The impact of the exodus tradition on ancient Judaism has been the subject of various investigations that, in turn, have led to further questions about the formative and normative force (J. Assmann) of the exodus narrative. Rather than focus on the effect of this force, R.’s article employs a speech-act analysis of the biblical text in order to shed light on the causation of this. With reference to the “theory of infelicities” associated with J. Austin and R. Grimes, R. addresses the question of why the promise of Pharaoh’s coming to know Yhwh in the Exodus account apparently does not find fulfillment in the book. Five possible points for a “happy” fulfillment can be identified. However, at each of these points, a particular form of infelicity surfaces: (1) Pharaoh’s confessions of guilt (hitch); (2) his release of the Israelites (flaw) and even (3) the outcry of his drowning army (non-play) do not give convincing evidence of the king’s having attained knowledge of Yhwh. Ultimately, it is not (4) the Egyptians (contagion) but rather (5) the Midianite Jethro (substitution) who is described as coming to know Yhwh. It is the tenth in the series of ten recognition formulas used in reference to non-Israelites in Exod 18:11 in connection with the figure of Jethro that seems to provide a fulfillment for the book’s promise of non-Israelites would come to knowledge of Yhwh. This finding has implications for the structure of the exodus narrative as well as for its intended effect on readers of each new generation. [Adapted from published abstract—C.T.B.] 1802. [Exod 1:15–22] Facundo Mela, fdp, “Propuesta de estructura y análisis de Ex 1,15–22,” RevistB 79 (2017) 75–87. M.’s article proposes and analyzes in detail a narrative structure for the account of the heroic midwives in Exod 1:15–22. On this basis, he then offers his reflections on the message that the structure proposed by him is intended to convey. [Adapted from published abstract—C.T.B.] 1803. [Exod 2:1–3:15] Zdzisław Pawłowski, “Bóg i tożsamość Mojżesza: Lektura narracyjna Exodus 2,1–3,15 [God and Moses’s Identity: A Narrative Reading of Exod 2:1–3:15],” BibAn 7 (2017) 187–205. This article provides a narrative reading of Exod 2:1–3:15, which P. envisages as a more appropriate approach to the text than the traditional historical-critical one with its focus on the text’s origin and literary evolution. The passage consists of a number of well-conceived episodes which serve to establish Moses’ multi-faceted identity...

REQUESTING SPEECH ACT OF UTTERANCES IN OCEAN’S ELEVEN BY STEVEN SODERBERGH: A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS

The term sentence and utterance are made different in terms that the former refers to syntactic structure, while the latter points out the actual function of such a structure in real communication. The same things apply to the terms request and requesting. The first term suggests the structural characteristics of sentence asking people to do something while the second term indicates the real sentence causing people to do something. The first deals with formal grammar while the second deals with pragmatics the actual use of language in communication.This article attempts to see requesting in its possible different syntactic forms as parts of speech acts in Ocean’sEleven by Steven Soderbergh. A pragmatic approach is applied since it uses context as a part of linguistic analysis involving the speaker, addressee, time, location, and genre in the conversation. A syntactic form of a sentence only cannot represent the real meaning of intention.The analysis of speech act of the conversation in the film brings us to an understanding that pragmatics encourage us to comprehend different kinds of setting to achieve requesting as a part of language use. Pragmatics as a branch of linguistics reveals mutual understanding between the speaker and the hearer.

The illocutionary force of laws

This article provides a speech act analysis of ‘crime-enacting’ provisions in criminal statutes, focusing on the illocutionary force of these provisions. These provisions commonly set out not only particular crimes and their characteristics but also their associated penalties. Enactment of a statute brings into force new social facts, typically norms, through the official utterance of linguistic material. These norms are supposed to guide behaviour: they tell us what we must, may, or must not do. Our main claim is that the illocutionary force of such provisions is primarily ‘world-creating’, i.e. effective, or declarational, rather than directive (behaviour-guiding). We assume that directive illocutionary force is either direct or indirect, showing that provisions need not contain the linguistic items that make for direct directives and that according to standard tests no indirect directive is present. A potential counter-argument is that any utterance serving to direct behaviour is necessarily a directive. We show that this behaviour-directing property is shared by some clear non-directives.

Die Erkenntnisverheißung im Buch Exodus

The impact of the Exodus tradition on ancient Judaism has been subject of various investigations, leading to further questions about the formative and normative force (J. Assmann) of the Exodus narrative. Rather than focus on the effect of this force, this article employs a speech-act analysis of the biblical text in order to shed light on the causation of it. Following the doctrine of infelicities (J. Austin, R. Grimes), this study examines why the promise of knowledge of Yahweh by Pharaoh apparently did not succeed. Five possible points of a “happy” fulfilment of the promise can be determined. At each of these points a particular form of infelicity can be detected. 1. The guilt confessions of Pharaoh (hitch), 2. his release of the people of Israel (flaw) and even 3. the outcry of his drowning army (non-play) do not show convincing signs of knowledge. In the end, it is not 4. the people of Egypt (contagion), but 5. the Midianite Jethro (substitution), who is described as getting to know Yahweh substitutionally. It is the tenth of ten recognition formulas concerning non-Israelites that seems to provide a fitting answer to the promise of knowledge in the book of Exodus. This has consequences for the structure of the narrative as well as for the intended effect on the reader of each new generation.

A Pragmatic Analysis of Speech Acts Used by English Lecturers in Languange Teaching at STKIP YDB Lubuk Alung

The research was intended to describe types of speech acts performed by English lecturers in learning process at STKIP YDB Lubuk Alung. This research was descriptive qualitative. The data of this research were the English utterances performed by English lecturers. The researcher obtained the data by means of note-taking technique. First, the researcher recorded the English teaching in the class using a video camera. Next, the researcher made transcripts of the dialogues. Then, the transcribed dialogues were recorded into the data sheet. Finally the data were classified according to Searle's classification of speech acts. In the data analysis the researcher applied interactive qualitative method and applied coding system. The research findings show that there were four types of speech acts performed by the English lecturers, namely representatives, directives, expressive and commissives, whereas declarations were not utilized by the English lecturer. The most frequently used illocutionary acts were directives (53%), while the least frequent illocutionary acts went to commissives (5%). The frequent use of directives indicates that the lecturer seemed to be aware of their status as a lecturer which was believed to be more powerful than her students. In such restricted context like classroom setting, it is common that the lecturer status is higher than her students since the relation between them is inherently asymmetrical. It was through directives the lecturers exerted her power over the students.

\u201cI apologise for my poor blogging\u201d: Searching for Apologies in the Birmingham Blog Corpus

This study addresses a familiar challenge in corpus pragmatic research: the search for functional phenomena in large electronic corpora. Speech acts are one area of research that falls into this functional domain and the question of how to identify them in corpora has occupied researchers over the past 20 years. This study focuses on apologies as a speech act that is characterised by a standard set of routine expressions, making it easier to search for with corpus linguistic tools. Nevertheless, even for a comparatively formulaic speech act, such as apologies, the polysemous nature of forms (cf. e.g. I am sorry vs. a sorry state) impacts the precision of the search output so that previous studies of smaller data samples had to resort to manual microanalysis. In this study, we introduce an innovative methodological approach that demonstrates how the combination of different types of collocational analysis can facilitate the study of speech acts in larger corpora. By first establishing a collocational profile for each of the Illocutionary Force Indicating Devices associated with apologies and then scrutinising their shared and unique collocates, unwanted hits can be discarded and the amount of manual intervention reduced. Thus, this article introduces new possibilities in the field of corpus-based speech act analysis and encourages the study of pragmatic phenomena in large corpora.

A Study on Iranian Funeral Posters: Speech Acts Analysis

Different speech acts such as apologies, refusals, invitation, etc., have studied and differences between English and Persian have shown. But there are several speech acts which have not been investigated as extensively as others. One of them is speech act of condolence. The word condolence originates from the Latin word condoler means "to suffer together" (Zunin & Zunin, 2007). It also means informing a loss, expressing sympathy or empathy with someone. As a matter of fact humans are emotional beings and in everyday communication individuals can see this emotionality (Morady Moghadam, 2012). Thus this study investigated and analyzed types of speech acts of 50 authentic texts of funeral posters in Iran then showed the frequency and percentage of them. Out of five kinds of speech acts, only four types of them are used in the texts. Based on the results, the order of most frequent to the least frequent used is declarative, directive, expressive and representative.

Speech act analysis of Igbo utterances in funeral rites

Speech act analysis of Igbo utterances in funeral rites

Speech act analysis of Igbo utterances in funeral rites

This paper attempts to classify speech acts in Igbo funeral rites in some towns in Awka South and Aguata local government areas in Anambra State. Paying the last respect to the dead is a common practice in Africa. In Igbo land, it is obligatory to bury the dead following the funeral rites practised by the various communities. In a funeral, there are utterances addressed to God, to the deceased, to the relatives of the deceased and to in-laws, friends and well-wishers. These utterances are meant to soothe the feelings of the mourners, to show solidarity and condole with the bereaved by encouraging them, to pay the last respect to the deceased, to express appreciation for the legacies of the deceased and to offer prayers for the repose of his/her soul. This study examines these utterances as speech acts using Searle’s (1976) classification of speech acts. The aim is to identify the most common utterance speech forms that are manifested and used in funeral rites. The data were collected from funeral rites held in Igbo speaking areas in Anambra State such as Awka, Amawbia, Uga and Nkpologwu by means of a digital tape recorder. The study reveals that the directive, expressive, representative/ assertive, commissive and declarative speech acts are used in funeral rites, with the expressive speech act utterances having the highest percentage (48.3%), followed by the directive and assertive (17.2%) and the commissive (13.8%). However, the declarative speech act is the least in our data (3.5%). One could conclude from this that the expressive speech act is essentially used to condole with the bereaved.