scholarly journals Just Kidding: Stand-Up, Speech Acts and Slurs

Disputatio ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (60) ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Peter Alward
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Group Identity ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Moral Criticism ◽  
Moral Distinction ◽  
Belief States ◽  
Speech Act Analysis

Abstract People respond to moral criticism of their speech by claiming that they were joking. In this paper, I develop a speech act analysis of the humor excuse consisting of a negative stage, in which the speaker denies he or she was making an assertion, and a positive stage, in which the speaker claims she or he was engaged in non-serious/humorous speech instead. This analysis, however, runs afoul of the group identity objection, according to which there is a moral distinction between jokes targeting members of vulnerable groups made by members of those groups and similar jokes made by non-members. In order to avoid this objection, I offer a revision to the speech act analysis that draws upon Perry’s distinction between beliefs and belief-states.

scholarly journals The Pragmatic Study of Speech Act Analysis in Discussion Activities on Speaking Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-72
Author(s):  
Widiastuti Muchsin
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Class Discussion ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Speech Act Analysis ◽  
Perlocutionary Act ◽  
Pragmatic Study ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

The research problems of this research is what are the types and functions of speech acts that appear in discussion activities on speaking learning of 3rd semester students of Polytechnic ATI Makassar. The methods in this research is a descriptive qualitative method. The subject of this research is the 3rd semester Politechnic ATI Makassar students in class discussion activities. The results of the study can be described as follows. There are several types of speech acts found. Based on the action objectives of the speaker's perspective, Locutionary act, Illocution act, and perlocutionary act are found. Locutionary speech acts include news, questions and orders. Illocutionary speech acts include assertive, directive, expressive, commissive and declarative illocution

scholarly journals Speech Act Analysis of the Dialogues in Henshaw’s This Is Our Chance

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 20-26
Author(s):  
Samaila Yakubu
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Civil Conflict ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Expressive Speech ◽  
The People ◽  
Exchange Information ◽  
Speech Act Analysis ◽  
Directive Speech

Speech act analysis is an act of investigating how utterances not only disseminate information but perform actions as well.  Dialogues in Henshaw’s This Is Our Chance are not only employed to exchange information about animosity between the people of Koloro Village and the people of Udura Village but to take actions on matters that involved the two neighbouring villages.  The present paper seeks to explore the dialogues in the above mentioned text to see how they have been used.  The paper adopts speech act theory of J. L. Austin which was later developed by J. R. Searle.  The data for the study were analysed based on speech act theory. Components of directive speech act such as commands and questions are used extensively in the text while those like requests, advice, directives and warnings are used insignificantly; constituents of representative speech act, namely, statements and reports run throughout the text; elements of expressive speech act such as complaints and appreciations are found in the text; declaration speech acts, and constituent of commissive speech act such as promise are used scantly in the text.  The study concludes that speech act theory is the most appropriate instrument for handling civil conflict.

scholarly journals KALEMBO ADE AS AN INSTRUMENT OF RESOLVING CONFLICT AMONG MBOJO COMMUNITY: A STUDY ON SPEECH ACT

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Muhammad Sahrain ◽  
Lalu Ari Irawan
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Verbal Interaction ◽  
Speech Event ◽  
Speech Events ◽  
Speech Act Analysis

This study aims at describing variation of meaning carried in kalembo ade as an instrument of resolving conflict among individuals and groups in Mbojo community by applying speech act analysis. Data were collected from speech events in Mbojo community and further analyzed descriptively. One type of speech acts was taken by considering its relevancy towards to focus of this study, i.e. expressive. Results showed that kalembo ade dealt with one of types of speech acts, i.e. Expressive type. The expression was found to reflect some actions, including condolences, apologies, greetings, thanksgivings, refusal, and congratulations. Hence, by viewing the context of usage, members of Mbojo community used this expression as an instrument in communication to resolve conflict, in which the phrase was used as tool to control verbal interaction during a speech event.

scholarly journals Decoding the wordplay: Speech act analysis of headlines predicting the future

2021 ◽  
Vol Volume 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 303-314
Author(s):  
Rabiah Rustam ◽  
Mian Shah Bacha
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
News Story ◽  
Pragmatic Markers ◽  
Future State ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Speech Act Analysis

Present article attempts to analyze the role of the pragmatic markers or illocutionary force indicating devices in the speech acts of prediction. The headlines play a significant role in making a news story readable and approaching large number of audience. The headlines used in the present article were taken from CNN website. These headlines cover a variety of stories related with Pakistan. As the headlines communicate more than what is said they have been treated as speech acts. Searle (1969) defines speech act as a minimum unit of communication which is illocutionary in nature and creates an impact on the mind of the reader. Keeping, this definition in view, the headlines are speech acts that affect the readers. Current study is limited to the headlines that are related to prediction or forecasting the future state of affairs.The detailed analysis of the speech acts finds that the interpretation of the headlines depends on the language devices which help in shaping the illocutionary functions of the speech acts in collaboration with the context. It has also been found that the headlines use negative words more often than the positive ones in an attempt to take the reeaders to the detailed stories.

scholarly journals Disagreement: a speech act analysis and classroom implications

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 24-35
Author(s):  
Panha Song
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Nonnative Speakers ◽  
Pragmatic Competence ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Native Speakers Of English ◽  
Nonnative Speakers Of English ◽  
Authentic Data ◽  
Speech Act Analysis

Disagreement has been widely regarded as one of the most interesting speech acts in EFL context since the way the speaker expresses her or his opposing view can affect the addressee’s self-image and view of the addressor. This article attempted to identify various strategies native speakers of English realized this speech act through a qualitative method by analyzing two sets of authentic data from two half-hour interviews. Next, it investigated the lack of emphasis on disagreement in EFL materials before offering possible suggestions to equip non-native learners of English with pragmatic competence to disagree effectively. The findings and recommendations had implications for EFL teachers, course designers, and materials developers in how and why speech acts and pragmatic competence should be emphasized in order to ensure that nonnative speakers of English could communicate effectively without being perceived as pragmatically inferior.

scholarly journals Speech Act Analysis of Madurese Wedding Ceremony in Kalidandan Village, Pakuniran, Probolinggo

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-126
Author(s):  
Anwari Anwari
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Direct Speech ◽  
Indirect Speech ◽  
Illocutionary Act ◽  
Wedding Ceremony ◽  
Indirect Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Analysis ◽  
Perlocutionary Act

Pragmatics is the study of those relations between language and context that are grammaticalized, or encoded in the structure of language. This study aims to describe kinds of speech acts especially locutionary act, illocutionary act, and the perlocutionary act of Madurese wedding ceremony in Kalidandan village, Pakuniran district, Probolinggo regency. The results of this study showed that the illocutionary act of the Madurese wedding ceremony in Kalidandan village, Pakuniran district, Probolinggo regency has various kinds of speech act, 1) direct speech act; 2) indirect speech act; 3) literal speech act; 4) non-literal speech act; 5) direct literal speech act; 6) indirect literal speech act; 7) direct non-literal speech act, and 8) indirect non-literal speech act.Keywords: Speech act, Kinds of speech act, and Madurese

scholarly journals ANALISIS TINDAK TUTUR BERBASIS KORPUS PADA TAGAR TOLAK OMNIBUS LAW

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Devi Ambarwati Puspitasari ◽  
Indah Okitasari
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Job Creation ◽  
Word Lists ◽  
Result Show ◽  
Twitter Users ◽  
Speech Act Analysis

ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to find out the discursive portrayal of the hashtag “tolakomnibuslaw” on Twitter, which reveals rejection of the Job Creation Law by applying the synergy of linguistic corpus method and illocutionary speech act analysis. The data of this research is a corpus based taken from the utterances of Twitter users who use the hashtag of  Omnibus Law Rejection (#tolakomnibuslaw) on October 8, 2020. Word lists and collocations analysis are utilized to see patterns of the hashtag used by people in expressing rejection of the Job Creation Law. Concordance is used to lean more the analysis of speech acts and study the data. The result show that there are 38 styles of the hashtag use. Most of them is the use of noun behind the hashtag “tolakomnibuslaw”. In addition, there are also five common topic hashtags included the hashtag “tolakomnibuslaw”.  From the perspective of speech acts, there are five types of speech acts that appear and are dominated by assertive speech and forms of criticism against government effort. Keywords:  linguistic corpus; social media; speech acts

scholarly journals SPEECH ACT ANALYSIS OF "FROZEN" THE MOVIE SCRIPT

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 692
Author(s):  
Adinda Srimulya Rahayu ◽  
Trisnendri Syahrizal ◽  
Irma Savitri Sadikin
Keyword(s):  
Research Design ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Pragmatic Language ◽  
Movie Script ◽  
Speech Act Analysis

This research aimed to analyze the speech acts of the movie script entitled Frozen, the movie that is being the most popular movie in 2013 until now. The research design in this paper is a qualitative method where the writers describe the result in a form of the words and the explanation of the result. The writers analyze all types of speech acts (representatives, commissives, directives, declarations, expressives, verdictives) by Finegan (2011) in doing this research, as the results of this research, all of the types of speech acts had their own meaning  for delivering the sentences to make such a response. The writers found 294 clauses that contain the type of speech acts, there are representatives (37), commissives (3), directives (32), expressives (10). Each type of the speech acts are delivering different meaning. The results of the research are taken from the script of the character named Anna in Frozen the movie.  Keywords:  Pragmatic, Language, Speech Act, Movie

scholarly journals An Analysis of Speech Acts in Merry Riana : Mimpi Sejuta Dollar Movie

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Ni Wayan Rosi Sumaniari ◽  
Dewa Putu Ramendra ◽  
Gede Mahendrayana
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Direct Speech ◽  
Indirect Speech ◽  
Indirect Speech Acts ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Indirect Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Analysis

People rarely know the function of the language used in the film. This study analyzes speech acts in a dialogue film entitled Merry Riana: Dreams of a Million Dollars. This research is a qualitative descriptive study. Data were analyzed from the form of speech acts consisting of direct and indirect speech acts in the form of declarative, imperative, and interrogative. The type of speech act analysis uses Searle's theory of representative, directive, commissive, expressive, and declaration. The result of this research is that direct speech act in interrogative form is 43.63%. Direct speech acts in the declarative form are 95 (43.18%), direct speech acts in the imperative form are 24 (10.90%), indirect speech acts in the imperative form are 2 (0.9%), indirect speech acts in imperative form as much as 2 (0.9%). interrogative form is 2 (0.9%), and indirect speech act in declarative form is 1 (0.45%). Furthermore, 74 utterances are analyzed into five types of speech acts. The most dominant representative used 36 (48.6%). Then followed by directive 21 (28.3%), expressive 14 (18.9%), commissive 3 (4.0%), and declarative 0 (0.0%). This research implies that understanding speech acts plays an important role in communication.

scholarly journals Between Statements and Actions: A Speech Act Analysis of President Buhari’s Media Political Discourses

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 948
Author(s):  
Sopuruchi Christian Aboh ◽  
Chris Uchenna Agbedo
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
National Interest ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Illocutionary Acts ◽  
Speech Act Analysis

The study of Buhari’s statements on “jailing of more thieves,” “rule of law should be subjected to national interest,” and “being fair in federal appointments” seem not to have been approached from speech act perspective. As such, this paper analyses the locutionary acts, illocutionary acts, and the perlocutionary effects of Buhari’s statements on the above subject matters. The data were obtained from the online version of Nigerian Dailies. Austin’s speech acts theory serves as the theoretical framework for data analysis. The findings of the study reveal that Buhari’s statement on “jailing of more thieves” is based on fact that he has already jailed some high-profile Nigerians since he was elected as the President of Nigeria. The findings of the study reveal the locutionary and illocutionary acts of Buhari’s statements. The study also shows how Buhari’s statements abided by or flouted Austinian felicity conditions. The perlocutionary effects of the statements were also identified.

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