the speech act of requesting

... List of Tables viii List of Figures viii Part A: INTRODUCTION Identification of the problem Aims of the study Objectives of the study Scope of the study Significance of the study Method of the ... Part A is the introduction of the study including the identification of the problem, the aims, the objectives, the scope of the study, the significance, the research method as well as the organization ... view of users, especially of the choices they make, the constraints they encounter in using language in social interactions, and the effects their use of language has on other participants in the...

Ngày tải lên: 28/02/2015, 11:54

... Part A is the introduction of the study including the identification of the problem, the aims, the objectives, the scope of the study, the significance, the research method as well as the organization ... pragmatics and the speech act theory Significance of the study This study will be an attempt to fill in a gap in the area of interlanguage pragmatics where learners’ production of linguistic acts has ... performance of the target language was understudied Thus, gaps are still there to fill in pragmatics, especially in the interlanguage speech act of apology In this study the aim is to compare the speech...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:52

... perform the speech act of encouraging and the pragmatic transfer from L1 to L2, • The focus of the gender factor to study the differences and similarities in performing the speech act of encouraging ... LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETICAL The author discusses speech acts with locutionary act, which is the BACKGROUND basic of act of utterance and perlocutionary act, the act which the hearer will recognize ... speech acts In the other way, speech acts are actions performed via utterances describes and analyzes the syntactic and pragmatic features of 2.2.2.2 Classifications of speech acts directives...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:31

... enactment of this Act, the Director of the Executive Office for United States Trustees shall submit a report to the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the ... determine the fraction of would-be Chapter filers who, because of the effects of using the IRS standards, either filed under Chapter 13 or never filed at all Consequently, we can only note the fraction of ... affected by use of the IRS standards The details of each of these steps in the analysis are discussed below Bankruptcy Case Samples To support empirical analyses of the effects of using the IRS expense...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 02:20

... securities laws: the Securities Act of 1933, which requires registration of the fund’s shares and the delivery of a prospectus; the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which regulates the trading, purchase ... responsibilities under the Investment Company Act; these duties are beyond those required of other types of directors Among other things, for example, they oversee the performance of the fund, fair valuation ... of a statement whether the mutual fund reserves freedom of action to engage in activities of such type; if such freedom of action is reserved, a statement indicates briefly, insofar as is practicable,...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 14:20

... practically refines the speech recognition results Table 4-3 shows the rate of change in the evaluated level by the original number of erroneous characters Table 4-3 The rate of change in the ... results of the stricter of two evaluators Table 4-2 shows the number of change in the evaluated level The rate of improvement after correction was 7% There were also a lot of cases that improved their ... and the other is the corresponding correct string (the former string is referred to as the ErrorPart, and the latter as the Correct-Part respectively) These parts are extracted from the speech...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 18:20

... hypothesis, POS blocks can be categorized as content-rich or content-poor, on the basis of the part of speech class membership of their individual components Specifically, we hypothesise that the ... on The extracted POS blocks overlap The order in which the POS blocks occur in the sentence is disregarded We statistically infer the probability of occurrence of each POS block, on the basis of ... not relevant to the query only introduces noise Thus, we select the most noisy field of the query to test whether the application of our hypotheses indeed results in the reduction of noise During...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:21

... calculate the economic estimates published here for the first time The Estimating Economic Attainment section presents our final estimation of the economic impact of the DREAM Act over the 40-year ... thousands of college graduates, contributing to the pool of higher-income earners needed by the nation at large This study aims to measure the economic impact of integrating these youths into the national ... legalization By examining the historical trends of these barriers’ effects on the educational attainment of immigrant groups, the report estimates the number of youths able to overcome these challenges...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 06:20

... among other things, placing certain legal obligations on creditors and other furnishers of data to the CRAs with respect to the accuracy of the information they provide In 2003, the FACT Act further ... 1952 (“FACT Act ) The FACT Act, which was enacted on December 4, 2003, amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C §§ 1681 et seq (“FCRA”), the statute that governs the operation of the nation’s ... employment,9 the provisions of the FACT Act mandating the studies focus primarily on “credit reports.” Further, many of the issues that the studies address – e.g., the effectiveness of matching...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 07:20

... areas of the federal securities laws Several regulations issued by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933,11 the Exchange Act, 12 and the Investment Company Act of See Adoption of ... in the wake of recent financial scandals.3 Among other things, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act directs the Commission to examine the following: (A) the role of credit rating agencies in the evaluation of ... disclose other important facts, thereby undermining the accuracy and reliability of their ratings 45 The second hearing panel consisted of two academics,46 the CEO of a credit research firm,47 and then-SEC...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 07:20

... plans as of the end of the 1-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act (b) REGULATIONS. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, in consultation with the Comptroller ... plan the terms of which require the payment of fees (other than late fees or over -the- limit fees) by the consumer in the first year the account is opened in an amount in excess of 25 percent of the ... agencies along with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation According to the Federal Reserve and other agencies, the regulatory activities required...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 07:20

... state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, or any other possession of the United States Advisers Act section 202(a)(19) For purposes of section 203A of the Advisers Act and the ... 202(a)(11) of the Advisers Act, the definition of “investment adviser” includes, among others, “any person who, for compensation, engages in the business of advising others as to the value of securities ... appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of investors”) See also section 408 of the Dodd-Frank Act Section 407 of the Dodd-Frank Act, which adds section 203(l) to the Advisers Act, exempts...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 14:21

... is acting on behalf of the school district with regard to providing services to that student, the records of that student are subject to FERPA, but not the records of the other students in the ... institution has the responsibility to make the initial, case-by-case determination of whether a disclosure meets the requirements of FERPA, the Department of Education’s Family Policy Compliance Office ... Introduction The purpose of this guidance is to explain the relationship between the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 15:21

... in the months ahead as necessary OMB REPORT PURSUANT TO THE SEQUESTRATION TRANSPARENCY ACT OF 2012 However, no amount of planning can mitigate the significant impact of the sequestration The ... and the identification of exempt and non-exempt ac­ counts, reflect the requirements of the laws that the Administration is applying With the single exception of military personnel accounts, the ... pursuant to section 251A of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended (BBEDCA) This sequestration, should it occur, is the result of the failure of the Joint Select Committee...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:21

... Section 133 of the Act also mandated that the Commission shall submit to Congress a report of such study before the end of the 90-day period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act containing ... (26) of the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Securities Act ), 15 U.S.C 77g, 77s(a), 77aa(25) and (26); Sections 3(b), 12(b) and 13(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act ), ... is often viewed as a form of historical cost accounting in which the pro rata share of the operations of the investment is reflected in a “one line” consolidation of the books of the investee These...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 20:20

... TANDRAGEE GLOBAL ADVISORS, LLC THE CARMACK GROUP, INC THE COLOMA GROUP, L.LC THE DELANCEY CAPITAL GROUP, LP THE OXFORD PRIVATE CLIENT GROUP, LLC THE SPANGLER GROUP, INC THE UNIVERSITY FUNDS, LLC TRIBUTARY ... EMPIRE INVESTMENT ADVISORS INC FAIRSON MANAGEMENT LIMITED FIDUCIARY MANAGEMENT GROUP, LLC FILIPINOFUNDS INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, LLC FLATFEEADVISORS.COM, INC FORT CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC 801-63002 ... LITTLEFIELD ASSET MGMT INC M D FALK & COMPANY, INC MACARTHURCOOK INVESTMENT MANAGERS LIMITED MARKS THERIOT WALSTON & COMPANY, INC MCW ADVISORS MEREDITH PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT INC MICOUD INVESTMENTS...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 03:20

... defined term in the Securities Act, and other rules under the Securities Act, such as Rule 482, specifically refer to an “investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940.” Rule ... Predictions of performance, exaggerated claims of investment prowess, unwarranted comparisons to competitors or benchmarks, and all of the other practices listed in the rule carry the same potential ... net, presumably seeking to attract the greatest number of investors they can that colorably meet the definition of accredited investor Many, and perhaps most, of these investors are likely to...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 14:20

... possible to define the acoustic signatures of individual elements, so that the presence of an element can be detected by analysis of the speech signal Picking out elements from the signal is much ... the full identity of a segment has been established The overall architecture of the recognition task is shown in Figure At Stage 1, the recogniser checks for the presence of the manner elements ... The other segment-based cues contrast steadystate formant values at the centre of a segment with values at entrance and exit boundary They describe the context of a segment without going to the...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 04:20

... |  The Economic Benefits of Passing the DREAM Act TABLE Fast facts on the DREAM act, 2010 to 2030 Increased economic impact • Direct impact on the economy $148 billion • Induced impact on the ... measure the effect of the DREAM Act on the educational profile of potential beneficiaries, we need to compare the expected educational attainment of DREAMers with and without the DREAM Act There ... that if the DREAM Act is enacted, the eligible population would experience the transition rates of their U.S.-born counterparts; otherwise they will experience the graduation rates of their foreign-born...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 05:21