Speech acts in professional maritime discourse: A pragmatic risk analysis of bridge team communication directives and commissives in full-mission simulation

John, Peter; Brooks, Benjamin; Schriever, Ulf

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2018.11.013

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“…Although Qadir and Riloff"s [12] design of speech act features was based on the text corpus of message board posts, the features were comprehensive enough to cover speech act properties in other text areas. For instance, the applicability of this data analysis approach has been verified in previous research for extracting commissives and directives in verbal maritime communication [8]. Following the approach proposed by Qadir and Riloff [12], the list of commissive classifiers was developed and presented in Table II. 保证, 承诺, 答应, 诺言, 许诺 "pledge" 保证, 承诺, 发誓 "commit" 承诺, 致力于 "guarantee" 保障, 保证 "plan" 计划, 规划, 安排, 打算, 方案 "First person pronoun" 我, 我们 "future tense" 将, 会, 将会 "modals" 愿, 愿意, 一定 "future" 将来, 未来, 明天 "later" 以后, 之后, 后期, 晚些…”

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“…Speech acts has been a popular research topic in recent pragmatic studies. For example, John et al [8] analyzed speech acts by native and non-native speakers of English in professional maritime communication to examine possible risks of miscommunication. Besides, Licea-Haquet et al [9] conducted an academic study on how Spanish speakers recognize speech acts.…”

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Speech Act in Diplomacy: How China Makes Commitments in Diplomatic Press Conference

Yin¹,

Chen²

2020

IJLLL

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Diplomatic commitments are often made in diplomatic settings to demonstrate a country's future actions. Based on the speech act theory, this study explores how Chinese foreign ministry spokespersons make diplomatic commitments in Chinese ministry of foreign affairs regular press conferences. This study adopted a corpus pragmatic approach and examined commissive speech acts in a self-established corpus consisting transcribed dialogs of 112 press conferences. The findings of this study include: 1) 98.64% of identified commissive speech acts were implicit performatives, among which future tense (59.45%) and modals (32.36%) were two most frequently used approaches to perform commissives; 2) Chinese spokespersons adjusted the use of commissive words in their speech acts for different diplomatic topics; 3) high-frequency words in commissive sentences revealed China's diplomatic ideologies of togetherness and continuity. The findings of this study present noticeable features of commissives performed by Chinese foreign ministry spokespersons and provide an innovative perspective to understand Chinese diplomatic discourse.

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Speech Act in Diplomacy: How China Makes Commitments in Diplomatic Press Conference

Yin¹,

Chen²

2020

IJLLL

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“…(4) : Here, try this 5The purpose of ADJT's speech can be understood by the interlocutor, which comes from different social identities and social distances. John et al (2019) argued that a message could be considered successful if the speaker gives code, processed by the interlocutor, then translated properly by the interlocutor to run communication effectively. In delivering data (4) above to make the interlocutor understand the request indirectly, ADJT used yesno question pattern.…”

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“…Searle (1979); Lee (2019) stated that locution is a basic meaning, hidden purpose illocution of speakers, and perlocution results from the illocutionary speech. According to John et al (2019), illocution can pressure speech partners to properly solve the message code. Meanwhile, the type of speech act is divided into five.…”

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The Use of Illocutionary Speech Acts in Colloquial by Anak Dalam Jambi Tribe

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Anak Dalam Jambi Tribe (ADJT) lives in the forest, far from the population, and the existence is rare. This research aims to determine whether ADJT uses illocutionary speech act, function, and type of speech act used. This research uses qualitative with pragmatic research type. The data is in the form of an illocutionary speech act, which is then transcript by putting out the conversation context. This research’s data source is from ADJT, who lives in Merangin Regency, Jambi Province, Indonesia. Result research shows that ADJT uses three types of speech acts, which are (1) directive with the function of prohibiting, ordering, and asking, (2) expressive with the function of thankful, and (3) commissive with the function of refusing. It can be concluded that ADJT frequently uses illocutionary to deliver information to interlocutors. This research is expected can become a preliminary step in further research, especially in the use of language related to indirect meaning in ADJT.

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“…Simulation has been analyzed by John, Brooks, & Schriever (2019). It focused in the use of commissive and directive utterances which gave an impact and emerged a risk in the speaker and hearer action.…”

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Speech Act Use in Parenting Style toward Children Self-Esteem in Bad Moms Movie

Pratiwi

Laila

2020

Ethical Lingua

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The parents become one of the crucial factors in determining children’s character. Their character is influenced by the people around them who have frequently made interaction. Based on Bad Moms movie, the changes of parent’s treatment to their children give an effect in several aspects. The technique of collecting the data is watching and examining the movie which relates to language use in parenting style towards children’s self-esteem. The technique of data analysis was done using descriptive method speech acts theory by Kreidler (1998), parenting style theory by Baumrind (1967) and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs in Shintya (2013). Based on Bad Moms movie, the use of directive utterances in the authoritative parenting style support the hearer to do something, by doing something, the children become independent. The use of directive utterances helps the hearer to reduce miscommunication and improve the effective communication.

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Speech acts in professional maritime discourse: A pragmatic risk analysis of bridge team communication directives and commissives in full-mission simulation

Cited by 37 publications

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Speech Act in Diplomacy: How China Makes Commitments in Diplomatic Press Conference

Speech Act in Diplomacy: How China Makes Commitments in Diplomatic Press Conference

The Use of Illocutionary Speech Acts in Colloquial by Anak Dalam Jambi Tribe

Speech Act Use in Parenting Style toward Children Self-Esteem in Bad Moms Movie

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