Search results for "Direct speech"
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What is an indirect speech act?
2019
Abstract The notion of an indirect speech act is at the very heart of cognitive pragmatics, yet, after nearly 50 years of orthodox (Searlean) speech act theory, it remains largely unclear how this notion can be explicated in a proper way. In recent years, two debates about indirect speech acts have stood out. First, a debate about the Searlean idea that indirect speech acts constitute a simultaneous realization of a secondary and a primary act. Second, a debate about the reasons for the use of indirect speech acts, in particular about whether this reason is to be seen in strategic advantages and/or observation of politeness demands. In these debates, the original pragmatic conception of sen…
Linguistic interpretation of speech errors
2016
The paper is an attempt to illustrate the linguistic interpretation of speech, known that it remains insufficiently resolved, especially for Romanian. The cause is given by the multitude of criteria that can or should be considered important in speech processing. The aim of this study is to develope a computational tool in order to identify the possible errors related to the morphosintactic structure of speech. Our goal is to assist users who can receive automatically different suggestions that can help them to improve the quality of their text. Thus, we chose an interdisciplinary approach through speech analysis that brings together the key fields of linguistics, computer science and so on…
Sarraute's plays : poplyphony and enunciation
2014
The corpus is formed of six plays of Nathalie Sarraute; it hides a duplication of enunciation types in the characters’ dialogue. This duplication is latent due to personal pronouns and verb tenses’ neutralization. The transition from an enunciation layer to another is not marked at all or not traditionally marked. Therefore, deciphering will be more complicated to any reader, listener or spectator. These works of art are also highly polyphonic in terms of enunciation as in semantics, as several voices are intertwined and as the characters resort to authorities of point of view. Thus, readers, listeners and spectators should identify enunciation sources and “other” authorities of point of vi…
On the social practice of indirect reports (further advances in the theory of pragmemes)
2010
Abstract This paper deals with the social practice of indirect reports and treats them as cases of language games. It proposes a number of principles like the following: Paraphrasis/Form Principle The that-clause embedded in the verb ‘say’ is a paraphrasis of what Y said, and meets the following constraints: should Y hear what X said he (Y) had said, he would not take issue with it, as to content, but would approve of it as a fair paraphrasis of his original utterance. Furthermore, he would not object to vocalizing the assertion made out of the words following the complementizer ‘that’ on account of its form/style. Furthermore, it connects such principles with Relevance Theory consideration…
EVALUATIVE LANGUAGE IN SPOKEN AND SIGNED STORIES TOLD BY A DEAF CHILD WITH A COCHLEAR IMPLANT: WORDS, SIGNS OR PARALINGUISTIC EXPRESSIONS?
2011
In this paper the use and quality of the evaluative language produced by a bilingual child in a story-telling situation is analysed. The subject, an 11-year-old Finnish boy, Jimmy, is bilingual in Finnish sign language (FinSL) and spoken Finnish. He was born deaf but got a cochlear implant at the age of five. The data consist of a spoken and a signed version of “The Frog Story”. The analysis shows that evaluative devices and expressions differ in the spoken and signed stories told by the child. In his Finnish story he uses mostly lexical devices – comments on a character and the character’s actions as well as quoted speech occasionally combined with prosodic features. In his FinSL story he…
Aproximación al estudio de las funciones pragmáticas y a la atenuación en la partícula ‘onda’ en el español de Chile
2020
Resumen En el español de Chile, además de su uso como sustantivo, ‘onda’ cumple también funciones propias de una partícula discursiva. La bibliografía ha determinado que este elemento puede actuar como reformulador explicativo, operador de concreción, operador con valor continuativo o aproximativo e introductor de discurso directo (San Martín, Rojas & Guerrero, 2016). El presente estudio tiene como objetivo, primero, retomar esta propuesta de funciones y profundizar en ella y, segundo, determinar si existen usos de ‘onda’ que se relacionen con un valor pragmático atenuante, partiendo de la hipótesis de que este valor podría surgir a partir sus usos como aproximador y…
Expressing evidentiality through prosody? Prosodic voicing in reported speech in Spanish colloquial conversations
2015
Abstract The present paper attempts to establish the evidential character of the special prosodic configuration associated with direct reported discourse (DRD). A variety of expressive meanings have been commonly attributed to this marked prosodic configuration of DRD (such as expression of stance, emotion, mimicking, alignment). However, the concurrence of pragmatic/expressive meanings together with evidentiality is very frequent in ‘non-evidential’ languages like Spanish. Therefore, we argue that the prosody in DRD also signals ‘reported’ or ‘quoted’ discourse and, therefore, the presence of evidentiality. To provide evidence for this latter claim, 449 instances of DRD have been extracted…
Old French Parataxis: syntactic variant or stylistic variation?
2012
The existence of paratactic constructions in Old French is a well-known fact, as in the following: Co sent Rollanto la veue ad perdue‘Roland feels (that) he has lost his sight’ (Chanson de Roland2297). These structures alternate with structures containing que: Co sent Rollant que s’espee li tolt‘Roland feels that his sword has been taken from him’ (Chanson de Roland2284). Although traditional philologists note that different types of asyndetic subordinate clauses exist, they do not provide an explanation of how and why such structures alternate with those introduced by que. Moreover, a detailed analysis reveals that the distribution of paratactic constructions does not seem to be homogeneou…
Izvairīšanās no lingvistiski-pragmatiskās kļūdas angļu valodā
2019
Šī bakalaura darba mērķis ir analizēt, vai lingvistiskais netiešums var izraisīt lingvistiski-pragmatisko kļūdu, un kādus lingvistiskos instrumentus var izmantot, lai izvairītos no konflikta. Lai analizētu politisko interviju plašsaziņas līdzekļos, tiek izmantota kvalitatīva pētījuma metode, kuras mērķis ir izpētīt, kā atrisināt lingvistisko netiešumu sarunā, kā atšķirt pateikto no tā, ko vēlas pateikt, kā arī to, kā izvairīties no lingvistiski–pragmatiskās kļūdas neskaidras valodas dēļ. Rezultāti liecina, ka kritērijs spējai pieņemt mijiedarbību ir atkarīgs no tā, cik lielā mērā tā var būt kaitīga sarunu partneriem, jo ikvienam sarunas partnerim pirmām kārtām rūp viņa personīgais tēls. Līd…
Bīvās netiešās runas lietojums Džeinas Ostinas romānā ''Emma''
2022
Bakalaura darbā tiek pētīts brīvās netiešās runas izmantojums un funkcionalitāte Džeinas Ostinas romānā "Emma". Darba mērķis ir brīvas netiešās runas kā vēstījuma tehnikas izpēte un Džeinas Ostinas ieguldījuma kritiska analīze. Darba teorētiskajā daļā veikts netiešās runas pētījums un noteikta Džeinas Ostinas ietekme. Darba empīriskajā daļā tiek pētītas brīvās netiešās runas funkcijas romānā "Emma", balstoties uz konkrētiem piemēriem. Analīzes rezultāti apstiprina Džeinas Ostinas ieguldījuma nozīmi brīvās netiešās runas attīstībā. Darbā izdarītie secinājumi norāda, ka Džeinas Ostinas meistarīgais netiešās runas izmantojums apliecina viņas novatorisko stilu un izcilo literāro talantu.