Speech Act Verbs

Proost, Kristel

doi:10.1016/b0-08-044854-2/01075-0

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“…However, SAY is not itself a speech act verb, which makes it hard to determine the speaker's intentions. As summarised in (Proost, 2009), SAY, in contrast with CLAIM, PROMISE or THREATEN which are more specific, does not explicitly give information as to the speaker's attitude. When a speaker states "I will explain the rules of the game to you in a second'', we know that she wants to, and will, provide explanations and guidance to her interlocutor; however, if she claims ``I'm saying that I'm leaving", we cannot know, a priori, what her intention is: is she just informing, or threatening her audience?…”

Section: The Verb 'To Say'mentioning

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I didn’t say that! Uses of SAY in mediation discourse

Janier

Reed

2017

Discourse Studies

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While several taxonomies of meta-discourse exist, none clearly explains speakers' strategies in mediation. Mediators, however, seem to rely a lot on meta-discourse to manage the argument while preserving their neutrality. This article proposes corpus analyses to detect mediation participants' discourse strategies and highlight the role and function of a meta-discourse element-the verb 'to say'. This paper is a first step towards the elaboration of a taxonomy for the analysis of argumentative meta-discourse, and brings new insights in meta-discourse in argumentative dialogues and mediation discourse in general.

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Section: The Verb 'To Say'mentioning

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I didn’t say that! Uses of SAY in mediation discourse

Janier

Reed

2017

Discourse Studies

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“…As the aim of the current paper does not imply a thorough investigation of speech acts taxonomy and principles of their classification, the author will adhere to Searle's one, which first, according to Proost (2009), serves as a 'prototype' for other classifications and, second, fully satisfies the needs of the current research and enables us to structure the analysis and discussion section.…”

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Temporal and Aspectual Forms of Verbs in Proposition of Commissive Speech Acts: the Case of Promise, Swear and Bet

Konstantin

2016

JLE

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Numerous research on Speech Act Theory considers the pragmatic functions of various types of speech acts, their illocutionary forces and implementation in language, focusing either on their locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary constituents or on their taxonomies, whereas the analysis of semantic and syntactic properties of performative formula remains scarce. The present paper reports on the study of temporal perspective of commissive speech acts in the English language. Specifically, it examines temporal-aspectual forms in propositions of performative verbs of promise, swear and bet. The methodology to investigate temporal-aspectual features of verbs in proposition includes literature review and a continuous sampling method with the help of which the author analysed approximately 1,800 performative utterances containing commissive performative verbs. The results of research demonstrate that the set of temporal-aspectual forms as well as their frequency differ from one commissive under the study to another, while the syntactic structures of propositions is homogeneous. The study also established the correlation between the illocutionary force of commissive performative verbs and temporal-aspectual forms of verbs in proposition. The results of the study might have practical implications in teaching English as a foreign language in terms of grammar and sociocultural aspects.

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“…Therefore, it is important to learn illocutionary acts to understand the goals or meaning of the conversation in daily life. In this sense, there are five illocutionary acts based on Searle's theory (1979): assertive, directive, commissive, expressive and declaration (see also Proost, 2006). A directive illocutionary act is one type of illocutionary act that is mostly used in a conversation among people in daily life to make the hearer do something.…”

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Directive Illocutionary Acts in Venom: Let There Be Carnage Movie

Ni Ketut Ica Rahayuni,

Putu Devi Maharani,

Komang Dian Puspita Candra

2022

Austronesian

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This study discussed the directive illocutionary act in Venom: Let There Be Carnage. It evaluates how all characters in the movie convey directive illocutionary acts. This study aims to find out the types of directive illocutionary acts. The data were collected using the observation method. The data is collected by watching the movie repeatedly while checking the conversation in the transcript and determining the utterance that contained a directive illocutionary act. Then, classify the utterance of the directive illocutionary act into three: command, request, and suggestions based on the theory by Kreidler (1998). In analyzing the data, the writer used the qualitative method. As a result, the writer found all types of directive illocutionary acts according to the theory from Kreidler (1998). There were 82 data found, and the most type of directive illocutionary act occurred was command with 51 data, request 23 data and suggestion 8 data.

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Speech Act Verbs

Cited by 8 publications

References 7 publications

I didn’t say that! Uses of SAY in mediation discourse

I didn’t say that! Uses of SAY in mediation discourse

Temporal and Aspectual Forms of Verbs in Proposition of Commissive Speech Acts: the Case of Promise, Swear and Bet

Directive Illocutionary Acts in Venom: Let There Be Carnage Movie

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