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1	Frequency, Form, and Distribution of Illocutionary Speech Acts in Swedish Parent-Child Interaction Pagmar, David January 2016 (has links) In this study, young children’s development of speech acts was examined. Interaction between six Swedish-speaking parents and their children was observed. The frequency, form and distribution of speech acts in the output from the parents were compared with the frequency, form and distribution of the children’s speech acts. The frequency was measured by occurrences per analysed session. The aim of the analysis was to examine if the parent’s behaviour could be treated as a baseline for the child’s development. Both the parents’ and the children’s illocutionary speech acts were classified. Each parent-child dyad was observed at four different occasions, when the children were 1;0, 1;6, 2;0, and 2;6 years of age. Similar studies have previously shown that parents keep a consistent frequency of speech acts within a given time span of interaction, though the distribution of different types of speech acts may shift, depending on contextual factors. The form, in terms of Mean Length of Speech Act in Words (MLSAw), were correlated with the longitudinal result of the children’s MLSAw. The distribution of the parents’ speech acts showed extensive individual differences. The result showed that the children’s MLSAw move significantly closer the MLSAw of their parents. Since the parent’s MLSAw showed a wide distribution, these results indicate that the parent’s speech acts can be treated as a baseline for certain aspects of the children’s development, though further studies are needed. Illocutionary speech acts parent-child interaction first language acquisition pragmatic development General Language Studies and Linguistics
2	The relevance of the speech act theory to Buzani Kubawo Scheckle, Linda Ann 10 1900 (has links) Austin's Speech Act Theory is a valuable tool for the analysis of a literary text. In interaction, the intentionand purpose-success of linguistic communication can be gauged by establishing whether participants have met felicity conditions and have respected maxims. When the Co-operative Principle is ignored, special effects are achieved and receivers can only make sense of utterances through implicature and inferences based on background knowledge and mutual contextual beliefs. In the drama, Buzani kubawo, characters interact on four levels of time in space and place. They reveal themselves and convey theme through their speech and actions. Conflict is entrenched by lines of force drawn between opposing characters and between sub-worlds contrasted. Cohesion, determined by plot structure, and form, expressed on the endophoric and exophoric levels, give meaning to the drama. The micro-analysis of the wedding scene illustrates how communication can misfire should the playwright allow it! / African Languages / M.A. (African languages) Communication Intention Purpose Implicature Felicity conditions Maxims Co-operative principle Principle of literalness Inferences Illocutionary (speech) acts Perlocutionary effects Conflict Unity I coherence Drama Decoders Mutual contextual beliefs Function 896.398522 TAMS SCHE 896.398522 Tamsanqa, Witness K. Buzani ku, awo. Reader-response criticism. Speech acts (Linguistics) Communication -- Psychological aspects. Discourse analysis Reader-response criticism Speech acts (Linguistics) Communication -- Psychological aspects Discourse analysis, Literary Connotation (Linguistics) Drama -- History and criticism Social interaction in literature Communication and culture -- Africa Intention (Logic) in literature Tamsanqa, Witness K. -- Buzani ku, awo
3	The relevance of the speech act theory to Buzani Kubawo Scheckle, Linda Ann 10 1900 (has links) Austin's Speech Act Theory is a valuable tool for the analysis of a literary text. In interaction, the intentionand purpose-success of linguistic communication can be gauged by establishing whether participants have met felicity conditions and have respected maxims. When the Co-operative Principle is ignored, special effects are achieved and receivers can only make sense of utterances through implicature and inferences based on background knowledge and mutual contextual beliefs. In the drama, Buzani kubawo, characters interact on four levels of time in space and place. They reveal themselves and convey theme through their speech and actions. Conflict is entrenched by lines of force drawn between opposing characters and between sub-worlds contrasted. Cohesion, determined by plot structure, and form, expressed on the endophoric and exophoric levels, give meaning to the drama. The micro-analysis of the wedding scene illustrates how communication can misfire should the playwright allow it! / African Languages / M.A. (African languages) Communication Intention Purpose Implicature Felicity conditions Maxims Co-operative principle Principle of literalness Inferences Illocutionary (speech) acts Perlocutionary effects Conflict Unity I coherence Drama Decoders Mutual contextual beliefs Function 896.398522 TAMS SCHE 896.398522 Tamsanqa, Witness K. Buzani ku, awo. Reader-response criticism. Speech acts (Linguistics) Communication -- Psychological aspects. Discourse analysis Reader-response criticism Speech acts (Linguistics) Communication -- Psychological aspects Discourse analysis, Literary Connotation (Linguistics) Drama -- History and criticism Social interaction in literature Communication and culture -- Africa Intention (Logic) in literature Tamsanqa, Witness K. -- Buzani ku, awo

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