Essays about: "Speech-act"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 47 essays containing the word Speech-act.

1. 16. Commanding the Swedish roads : Non-verbal performatives in the grammar of road signs

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

   Author : Ottilia Andersson; [2020]
   Keywords : road signs; speech act theory; linguistic landscape studies; cooperative principle; semiotics;

   Abstract : Road signs form a non-verbal semiotic system – by many encountered on a daily basis – that dictates the actions of the users of the road, in order to create a safe and efficient traffic environment. It is clear that road signs are not just ‘saying’ things but ‘doing’ something. READ MORE

3. 17. A study of how students feed from feedback : An application of speech act and attribution theory within the field of linguistics

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Lärarutbildningen

   Author : Desirée Antblad; [2020]
   Keywords : speech act theory; attribution theory; feedback; EFL; pragmatics; motivation;

   Abstract : This essay provides an analysis of five examples of written feedback on a speech assignment completed for an English as a foreign language (EFL) class by second-year students of upper secondary school. The essay aims to shed light on how feedback is formulated and how it is interpreted as a part of a textual dialogue between teacher and student. READ MORE

4. 18. Cross-cultural Analysis of Congratulations in American English, Indian English and Peninsular Spanish

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

   Author : Kimia Avazpour; [2020]
   Keywords : Cross-cultural; speech acts; congratulations; DCTs; Elwood;

   Abstract : To gain a better understanding of intercultural communication, it is relevant to study speech acts not only in different languages but also across different language varieties. Seeing as speech act studies are said to have suffered from Anglocentrism there is a necessity to include nonwestern cultures (Wierzbicka, 1985:145). READ MORE

5. 19. Hydro-securitization in the Indus River basin: An analysis of Indo-Pakistani security frames

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Vidar Wirén Gimle; [2019]
   Keywords : Securitization theory; India-Pakistan; Hydropolitics; Security frames; Transboundary waters; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The animosities between India and Pakistan have been continuous since partition of British India over seven decades ago. Disputes over Kashmir and the rivers flowing through the region can be said to represent a nucleus of the tensions between the two countries. READ MORE

6. 20. Education as a matter of security in Hungary : a case study of official statements by prime minister Viktor Orbán in 2017

   University essay from Försvarshögskolan

   Author : Jana Hilding; [2019]
   Keywords : education; Copenhagen school; Central European University; discourse analysis; EU; Hungary; securitization; Viktor Orbán;

   Abstract : This paper examines the securitization of education in Hungary during 2017 according to the statements of prime minister Viktor Orbán in official speeches published on the Hungarian government’s website. This quantiative examination combines the methods of discourse analysis, taking off from the works of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, partially extended with the comments of Marianne Winther Jørgensen and Louise Phillips, with the Copenhangen School’s dictum on securitization being performed through a speech act. READ MORE