Expressive illocutionary acts

Norrick, Neal R.

doi:10.1016/0378-2166(78)90005-x

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“…Thanking is therefore socially expected on those occasions where the speaker has been done a service by the addressee and its absence may be perceived as markedly rude and socially disruptive, as thanking is a reactive act par excellence (Coulmas 1981in Milà García, 2011). This also explains why parents insist on teaching their offspring to say 'thanks' (Norrick, 1978;Greif and Gleason, 1980). Expectedly enough, thanking appears in both chats in practically the same frequency.…”

Section: Thankingmentioning

confidence: 89%

“…there is no match between the words and the world since the speaker is referring to her "inner" world rather than the "external" one. Despite their troublesome nature, there seems to be agreement on the fact that expressives deal with the speaker's "inner" world, as reflected by other definitions which have also focused on the speaker's "underlying emotions" (Norrick, 1978), "state of mind, attitudes and feelings" (Taavitsainen and Jucker, 2010) or their "psychological attitudes" (Guiraud et al, 2011).…”

Section: Defining Expressive Speech Actsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To this purpose, I will take Norrick (1978) and Guiraud et al's (2011) classification of positive and negative emotions -both basic and complex-as triggers of emotives. For example, according to Guiraud et al (2011), negative emotions include basic emotions like sadness and disapproval and complex ones like guilt, regret, disappointment or reproach.…”

Section: Emotivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Expressive Speech Acts in Educational e-chats

Arévalo

2017

Pragmática Sociocultural / Sociocultural Pragmatics

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The category of expressive speech acts has traditionally proven elusive of definition in contrast to other types of speech acts. This might explain why this group of speech acts has been less researched. The present paper aims to redress this imbalance by analysing the expressive speech acts performed by two groups of university students in two educational chats, carried out in English or in Spanish, respectively. The main purpose of the study is to find out if students express their emotions (and which emotions) when interacting online and, if the use of their mother tongue or not affects their performance of expressive speech acts in terms of frequency and type. To this purpose, Weigand's (2010) taxonomy of speech acts was followed, since it provides a more systematic delimitation of the traditional category of "expressive acts". Her distinction between emotives and declaratives was thus applied to the dataset under scrutiny. Results show that students opt for performing declarative acts but refrain from expressing their own emotions in an educational setting. As for the use of English or Spanish, no significant differences were observed, which reveals that the use of their mother tongue does not seem to affect the kind of acts performed.Keywords: expressive speech acts, educational chat, English, SpanishResumen: Tradicionalmente, la definición de los actos expresivos ha sido menos concreta que la de otros actos de habla. Esto podría explicar por qué este grupo de actos de habla ha recibido menos atención. Este estudio tiene como objetivo equilibrar, al menos en parte, este desequilibrio mediante el análisis de los actos expresivos producidos por dos grupos de estudiantes universitarios en dos chats educativos, en inglés y español, con el fin de descubrir si los estudiantes expresan sus emociones (y cuáles) cuando interactúan online y si el uso de su lengua materna afecta su producción de actos de habla expresivos. Para ello, se ha utilizado la taxonomía de actos de habla propuesta por Weigand (2010) pues ofrece una delimitación más sistemática de los tradicionalmente conocidos como "actos expresivos". Su distinción entre actos "emotivos" y "declarativos" se ha aplicado a los datos a analizar y los resultados muestran que los estudiantes optan por producir actos declarativos pero limitan la expresión de sus emociones en un contexto educativo. En cuanto al uso del español o el inglés, no se observan diferencias significativas, lo que demuestra que el uso de la lengua materna en este contexto parece no afectar el tipo de actos de habla producidos.

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Section: Thankingmentioning

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Section: Defining Expressive Speech Actsmentioning

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Section: Emotivesmentioning

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Expressive Speech Acts in Educational e-chats

Arévalo

2017

Pragmática Sociocultural / Sociocultural Pragmatics

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“…(Auramaki, Lehtinen, and Lyytinen, 1988;Button, 1995;Croft, 1994;Fishman, 1971;Holdcroft, 1978;Hymes, 1962;Kearns, 1984;Longacre, 1976;Norrick, 1978;Rodden, 1993;Sadock, 1988;Stubbs, 1983;Tsohatzidis, 1994;Vanderveken, 1990;Verschueren, 1977;Verschueren, 1980;Wastell and White, 1993;Wierzbicka, 1985;Wierzbicka, 1987) The Theory of Speech Acts has been applied, deeply analysed and criticised mainly within the boundaries of linguistic theories. The theory can be applied to natural language, to examine text and discover how the syntax places a Speech Act (SA) in one category.…”

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Design Speech Acts. “How to Do Things with Words” in Virtual Communities

Cicognani¹,

Maher²

1997

CAAD Futures 1997

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Cyberspace is language based (Cicognani, 1996;Cicognani, 1997;Winograd and Flores, 1986), and so are Virtual Communities (VCs). We propose that VCs are ideal places to experience and enhance a language for design. Design in a VC can actually be performed using speech acts that in-real-life wouldn't perform any design. We call these acts 'design speech acts'. We present, as a starting point, a list of verbs which can be used in a VC for design and the implications of using these verbs to design cyberspace. We present a methodology for structuring and defining design speech acts, so that a language for design in a VC can be subsequently developed. We are developing a specific environment for a virtual community in which designers can articulate their needs and produce text-based design objects.

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“…In the field of linguistics, apologies of various types seem always to be studied either as speech acts (e.g., Abadi, 1990;Fillmore, 1971;Olshtain and Cohen, 1983;Olshtain, 1987) or as broader social interactions (e.g., Holmes, 1990;Norrick, 1978;Owen, 1983;Trosborg, 2003). Corporate apologies made after an allegation of wrongdoing or transgression could well be conceived as an independent genre, given that they are one of the most frequent and central crisis-related "activity types" that is "goaldefined, socially constituted, bounded events with constraints on participants, setting, and so on, but above all on the kinds of allowable contributions" (Levinson, 1992(Levinson, [1979: 69, italics original).…”

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Apology as a Crisis Response Strategy: a Genre-Based Analysis of Intercultural Corporate Apologies

Li¹

2017

IJLC

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Corporate apologies made after an alleged wrongdoing or transgression could well be considered as an independent genre given that they are one of the most frequent and central crisis-related activity types. This article examines intercultural corporate apologies within the framework of genre analysis to discuss whether transnational corporations (TNCs) accommodate to cultural expectations of intended addressees and how the communicative purposes are achieved through the schematic structuring and linguistic realization patterns. The data collected for this study consists of 16 apologies delivered publically by TNCs of low-context cultures with an American or European root to Chinese people after having been accused of an alleged wrongdoing. The study shows that intercultural corporate apologies are made not only for reputation and trust repair, but also for illocutionary negotiation and discursive struggle. It will also be demonstrated that TNCs rarely accommodate to the cultural expectations of Chinese people in terms of the content of apology and its style. The implications of the study are then highlighted, with suggestions on the methodology of genre studies and the political dimension of genre, and the practice of intercultural apologies for crisis management practitioners.

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Expressive illocutionary acts

Cited by 104 publications

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Expressive Speech Acts in Educational e-chats

Expressive Speech Acts in Educational e-chats

Design Speech Acts. “How to Do Things with Words” in Virtual Communities

Apology as a Crisis Response Strategy: a Genre-Based Analysis of Intercultural Corporate Apologies

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