indirect speech acts in modern english discourse

... direct speech acts motivated by direct speech acts, indirect speech acts motivated by direct speech acts, direct speech acts motivated by indirect speech acts and finally indirect speech acts motivated ... by direct speech acts, direct speech acts motivated by indirect speech acts and finally indirect speech acts motivated by indirect speech acts. The proportion of individual types in the play ... as I find it most interesting from the point of view of indirectness. The play contains four types of exchanges: direct speech acts motivated by direct speech acts, indirect speech acts motivated...

Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2013, 10:37

... soon plunge the "gifted" man into financial ruin. Can you explain the meaning of red herring"? The original red herrings were strong-smelling fish that the fox hunters of Old ... Family in United Kingdom. 11. It was cold Saturday morning at beginning of month. first snap of frost was in air, after mild October of Indian-summer weather. But nonetheless, it was sparkling ... We can fall into a black mood, a purple passion, or a blue funk; when things start looking up, we feel in the pink. Even the animal world gets painted by the colouring of human imagination. Have...

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 13:15

... intuitive level, an extension to the work in Cohen [1978] to account for indirect speech acts. Because of space constraints, we will need to depend explicitly on the intuitive meanings ... conditions in the second inference above. S might also infer that A ham a goal of achieving not P. This is another possible inference. Which applies in a given setting is detemlned by the rating ... include the speaker/wrlter holding certain beliefs about the world, and having certain intentions as to how it should change ([Austin, 1962], [Searle, 1969]). In Cohen [1978] and Cohen and...

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Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 19:20

... pronoun in the objective case shouldn’t be used in subject position. For example, it is very informal to say “Him singing in the shower is an interesting hobby”. c. Bare- infinitive nominal clause ... Among knowledge involved in the complex sentence, there are nominal clauses, adverbial clauses, direct and indirect speech. This report looks into these matters by including two main sections. ... When the to of the infinitive is omitted, it is called bare- infinitive. The bare- infinitive nominal clause is used when the infinitive clause supplies a predication corresponding to an use of...

Ngày tải lên: 15/04/2013, 14:57

... in the past too. For example: Direct speech Indirect speech "I'm going to the cinema", he said. He said he was going to the cinema. She said, "I can teach English online." ... English Grammar Direct and Indirect Speech We often have to give information about what people say or think. In order to do this you can use direct or quoted speech, or indirect or ... to. Direct speech Indirect speech "I might go to the cinema", he said. He said he might go to the cinema. You can use the present tense in reported speech if you want to say that something...

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... kept in in the cage.  Despite my seemingly never-ending agnostic questioning and doubting, in light of the evidence revealed in this book, it seems prudent to hedge my bets at this point and ... disconcerting to have madame knitting all the way there, in a public conveyance; it was additionally disconcerting yet, to have madame in the crowd in the afternoon, still with her knitting in her ... been doing these days? B: Ф Preparing for the driving license test  A : Have you been swimming? B : yes, I have Ф A : What have you been doing B : Ф swimming  Those who prefer Ф, can stay indoors ...

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... meaning that are intended. One of the main reasons for including speaking activities in language lessons is to help students develop habits of rapid language processing in English. Interacting ... too early in the morning or afternoon) are sometimes affect students in English speaking learning. 4. To reduce students’ motivation in English speaking learning, two important things must ... teacher/student interaction should be promoted during the speaking class. 4. 3 Factors de-motivating students in English speaking Research question 3: What are the factors de-motivating students in English...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 15:01

... some interesting expressions: 30 misinterpreting of the speaker’s utterances. I observed that students here did not give a final rising in yes-no questions, or a final rising-falling in statements, ... learning English speaking in general and towards learning English pronunciation in particular. The seven questions left were employed to find out whether they had difficulties in learning English ... very much learning English also gave more reasons for being interested in the subjects. I chose some typical ones and then translate into English as below: • I think learning English can help...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 15:04