Two Views of Speech Acts: Analysis and Implications for Argumentation Theory

Kauffeld, Fred J.; Goodwin, Jean

doi:10.3390/languages7020093

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“…In another case, speech function and speech act specify the communication's social purpose, and up to now, there had been a number of research into these contexts, such as Derakhshan & Arabmofrad (2018), Kauffeld & Goodwin (2022), Lee (2022), Oluoch (2020), Rakaj (2022), Santosa & Kurniadi (2021), Susilawati (2019), Uspayanti, (2020), Nita & Lestari (2021). It indicates that when people want to speak differently in different social situations, they are concerned with recognizing the social uses of language and how it is employed to communicate social meaning.…”

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Speech Function in Teaching Speaking Skill: Evaluation, Analysis, and Recommendation

Taridi¹,

Fitria²,

Supriusman³

et al. 2022

IJEFL

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This study aims to assess and analyse the sorts of speech functions used by teachers in the tenth grade at one vocational high school in Jambi, Indonesia, and to identify the most prevalent kind. The study was carried out using descriptive qualitative research and descriptive analysis design. In this study, data were triangulated through observation and documentation. The study's targets were English teachers, and the transcribed data was divided into three categories of language functions. Holmes' concept is applied to classify speech functions. There are three types of utterance functions: expressive, imperative, and referential. The results showed that out of 60 speech functions, the directive function was applied by instructors the most frequently, accounting for 31 of them (51.66%). Directive one is the main reason, as it delivers interaction by directing and requesting the student. The study recommends that there are still many types of speech functions, but alternatively, directives are more prominent. Other researchers can gather data from many sources, including Instagram's English-language account, an English newspaper or magazine, and many more. The current study encourages English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers to complete a task and determine an assignment for future research. Given the implications of directive functions for English teachers in teaching speaking skills and the ability to inquire about something and command and request learners to perform something.

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Speech Function in Teaching Speaking Skill: Evaluation, Analysis, and Recommendation

Taridi¹,

Fitria²,

Supriusman³

et al. 2022

IJEFL

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“…This textual analysis study will strive to fill in the gaps which are emerging because as a scholarly effort, it examines one aspect of linguistic research on COVID-19 where there has been an emphasis on rhetorical analysis (Alo, 2012;Abuya, 2012;Babatunde & Odepitan, 2009;Cart, 2014;Bitzer, 1968;Cole & Harper, 2017;Ghasemi, 2020;Larrazabal &Korta 2002 andMensah, 2014) and critical discourse analysis (Ankrahi, Frimpong & Opoku, 2018;Mahdiyan, Muhammad & Hosseini-Maasoum, 2013;Appiah, 2015;Al-Badri & Al-Janabi, 2022;Addy & Ofori, 2020;Ningtyas, 2019;Awawdeh, 2021, Fairclough, 1995Hosseini-Maasoum, Mahdiyan, Rahbar 2013;Wodak, 2001) and speech analysis (Dadjoi, 2022;Kauffeld & Goodwin, 2022;Demuyakor, 2021;Daan, & Marx, 2021) in Ghana and Africa. This study would contribute to research generally in textual analysis in Ghana and Africa.…”

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A Textual Analysis of President Akufo-Addo’s 12th Covid–19 Address

Rockson,

Adade-Yeboah,

Owusu

2023

JET

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The study examined the social and political circumstances in Ghana which evolved because of the pandemic created by COVID-19, and the extent to which President Akufo-Addo was able to effectively use the medium of speech to manage this global health emergency. This study focused on the stylistic choices of the speech and investigated how different sentence structures, repetitions, political jargon, and other linguistic characteristics were deployed. Textual analysis involves the appreciation of a text while explaining its ideological and cultural dimensions (Fursich, 2009). This study was underpinned by the Narrative Paradigm Theory and Sociolinguistics. Under Narrative Paradigm Theory, narratives have a plot and characters that are involved in an interaction and can therefore be seen as a narrative in form and function. Sociolinguistics shows how language can be presented in specific contexts of social life, and how it reflects and then includes meaning and structure in those contexts (Schiffrin, 1997). Also, textual analysis as a qualitative research methodology was used for this study, and as an interpretive approach, it concentrated on the embedded cultural and ideological positions on the material. The findings from this study showed that the speech that was in a narrative mood incorporated all the achievements and challenges identified during the pandemic. It also provided cases of semantic analysis of words and meaning, relations among words that included metaphors, semantics, argumentative, narrative, and cognitive frames.

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“…Elsewhere, we have described argumentation as a very abstract set of resources for managing disagreement, grounded in the pragmatics of communication and overlaid with situated norms of reasonableness (van Eemeren et al 1993, p. 2;Jackson 2019;Jackson and Jacobs 1980;Jacobs 1999;Jacobs and Jackson 1989). Along with other communication scholars (e.g., Innocenti 2022;Kauffeld and Goodwin 2022;Weger and Aakhus 2005), we have embraced 'normative pragmatics' as a label for our approach. Though informed and influenced by other contemporary argumentation theories, normative pragmatics is distinctive in asserting that both the structure and the substance of argumentative discourse emerge from interaction, meaning that what participants in argumentation end up producing as positions and standpoints are collaborative productions.…”

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What Was the President’s Standpoint and When Did He Take It? A Normative Pragmatic Study of Standpoint Emergence in a Presidential Press Conference

2022

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In contrast to views that treat positions and standpoints as defining the scope of argumentation, our normative pragmatic approach sees positions and standpoints as interactionally emergent products of argumentative work. Here, this is shown in a detailed case study of a question-answer session in which former US President Donald J. Trump was pressed by journalists to express and defend his standpoint on the Charlottesville protests by neo-Nazis and White nationalists. Trump repeatedly evaded efforts to pin down his standpoint; however, with each of his answers to the questions, his built-up position circumscribed the range of possible standpoints he could take. To the end, he avoided backing down from any prior statement expressing his standpoint, while also preserving a degree of maneuverability regarding what his standpoint amounted to.

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Two Views of Speech Acts: Analysis and Implications for Argumentation Theory

Cited by 5 publications

References 13 publications

Speech Function in Teaching Speaking Skill: Evaluation, Analysis, and Recommendation

Speech Function in Teaching Speaking Skill: Evaluation, Analysis, and Recommendation

A Textual Analysis of President Akufo-Addo’s 12th Covid–19 Address

What Was the President’s Standpoint and When Did He Take It? A Normative Pragmatic Study of Standpoint Emergence in a Presidential Press Conference

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