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1	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
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

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The relevance of the speech act theory to Buzani Kubawo

The relevance of the speech act theory to Buzani Kubawo