An interactional account of illocutionary practice

Witek, Maciej

doi:10.1016/j.langsci.2014.08.003

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“…40 Interpretation of the propositional content of this act requires taking into consideration the fragment of the context that covers common knowledge of participants of the interaction about the subject of the trial. 41 The author of this article directly observed this context due to personal participation in the hearing.…”

Section: Some Other Specific Traits Of Procedural Acts and The Procesmentioning

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“…In the second dialogue, the defendant's utterance was identified by the court as a motion to permit a document included in the case files, namely, a photograph of a damaged car. 40 Considering the context in which this utterance was formulated, 41 questions identified therein as the verbal form suggests were also justified (e.g. the defendant only wanted to make sure that the photograph is included in the case file).…”

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“…See about the distinction proposed by Strawson[34], adopted as one of the theoretical bases by Bach and Harnish[5], see also[41].…”

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Procedural Acts as Double-Conventionalized Acts: Considerations on Conventional Acts Performed in a Courtroom Discourse

Gmerek

2020

Int J Semiot Law

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The subject of interest of this article is procedural acts considered as double-conventionalized acts. It is assumed in this article that in the case of procedural acts, one can distinguish two levels of conventionalization: (1) the level of a speech act and (2) the level of a procedural act. Both above-mentioned levels affect each other in various ways, what is discussed in the article. As assumed in the article, the analysis of acts characterized by this particular trait (double conventionalization) and with due account of this trait allows one to observe phenomena that can be hard or even impossible to notice in the process of analyzing acts that are deprived of this trait. Furthermore, it seems that the description of this type of acts may particularly enrich the current discussion on some properties of speech acts held on the grounds of philosophy of language or pragmalinguistics. The research material used in this article as an illustration consists of actual utterances of participants of Polish court proceedings used by them at a hearing.

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Procedural Acts as Double-Conventionalized Acts: Considerations on Conventional Acts Performed in a Courtroom Discourse

Gmerek

2020

Int J Semiot Law

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“…For instance, in uttering (11c), speaker B performs a direct act of making a presumption that not only shifts the burden of proof among the participants in the dialogue, but also invites speaker A either to endorse the proposition that C is honest or to refuse to endorse it and, next, justify his refusal. In other words, the response that B's utterance invites by convention qua a felicitous presumption-where 'by convention' is to be read as 'in accordance with a relevant pattern of verbal interaction' (see Witek 2015aWitek , 2019b-is either A's endorsement of the proposition in question or his refusal to do so followed by an appropriate justification, e.g., A's utterances of (11d) and (11e), respectively. In general, the proponent's successful individual presumption that p (e 2 ) creates the obligation on the part of the respondent to justify his refusal to endorse the proposition that p, whenever he refuses to endorse it, and, at the same time, (e 3 ) invites him to complete one of the conversational sequences: "the proponent's presumption that p followed by the respondent's endorsement of the proposition that p" or "the proponent's presumption that p followed by the respondent's refusal to endorse the proposition that p and his justification of this refusal.…”

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Illocution and accommodation in the functioning of presumptions

Witek

2019

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In this paper, I develop a speech-act based account of presumptions. Using a scorekeeping model of illocutionary games, I argue that presumptions construed as speech acts can be grouped into three illocutionary act types defined by reference to how they affect the state of a conversation. The paper is organized into two parts. In the first one, I present the score-keeping model of speech act dynamics; in particular, I distinguish between two types of mechanisms-the direct mechanism of illocution and the indirect one of accommodation-that underlie the functioning of illocutionary acts. In the second part, I use the presented model to distinguish between (1) the unilateral act of individual presumption, the point of which is to shift the burden of proof by making the hearer committed to justifying his refusal to endorse the proposition communicated by the speaker, whenever he refuses to endorse it, (2) the bilateral act of joint presumption-'bilateral' in that it is performed jointly by at least two conversing agents-the function of which is to confer on the proposition endorsed by the speaker the normative status of jointly recognized though tentative acceptability, and (3) the indirect or back-door act of collective presumption, the purpose of which is to sustain rules and practices to which the conversing agents defer the felicity of their conversational moves.

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“…In understanding meaning of words there was three meanings point of view, i.e. locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary acts (Witek, 2015;Herman, 2015). These meaning represent what word meant to do.…”

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Assertive Speech Acts as Strategy Revealing Impoliteness: A Case of Translation Quality in Translated Novels The Silkworm and The Cuckoo’s Calling

Waluyo¹,

Nababan²,

Santosa³

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Proceedings of the Fifth Prasasti International Seminar on Linguistics (PRASASTI 2019)

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This research is a translation study trying to explore how assertive speech acts could be used for revealing impoliteness. In many situation impoliteness as a strategy of speech act aims at disharmony interactions. The disharmony was indicated by their utterances used in interaction. The goals could be reached by using types of speech acts to confirm its impoliteness. Assertive speech acts found in this research were proved be able to use as a strategy to reveal impoliteness. The data is qualitative conveyed by some utterances revealing impoliteness and explored as descriptive method. Content analysis is used in analysing the data by purposive sampling to catch the research goal. The impoliteness theory proposed by Culpeper is used to determine impoliteness strategy. There are 5 strategies, i.e. bald on record impoliteness, positive impoliteness, negative impoliteness, off-record impoliteness and withhold politeness. Otherwise, in assessing the translation quality refers to Nababan et.als assessment model including accuracy, acceptability and readability aspects. The results show that assertive speech acts could be used as strategy revealing impoliteness with high degree of translation quality. This research hopefully may contribute in discussion of impoliteness next time.

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An interactional account of illocutionary practice

Cited by 48 publications

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Procedural Acts as Double-Conventionalized Acts: Considerations on Conventional Acts Performed in a Courtroom Discourse

Procedural Acts as Double-Conventionalized Acts: Considerations on Conventional Acts Performed in a Courtroom Discourse

Illocution and accommodation in the functioning of presumptions

Assertive Speech Acts as Strategy Revealing Impoliteness: A Case of Translation Quality in Translated Novels The Silkworm and The Cuckoo’s Calling

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