But Austin, who puts forward speech act theory, maintains that language is not only referent, but also performative.
The socio-psychological analysis of language indirectness is significant to develop indirect speech act theory and understand and use indirect language.
Traditional speech act theory claims that speech ACTS are governed by a set of constitutive rules, which are called felicity conditions of speech ACTS.
These speech act sentences of conventional meanings, literally they are just some words and statements; if based on general rules, the illocutionary force is indeed giving instructions.
This thesis discusses emphatically the constitution of innuendo speech act in novels: reference act, narrative act, disparaging act.
This is also explainable in virtue of the explanatory power that speech act theory has in describing conversational sequencing.
The perlocutionary act of innuendo speech act indicates that innuendo speech act has a stronger pragmatic force and obvious later effects.
The basic methods applied to analyze classroom instructional behaviors are classroom observation, inter-active analysis of classroom speech act and ethnography.
The concept of force can be traced to Frege whereas the systematic study of the illocutionary force theory originated in Austin's initiation of the speech act theory.
Though metaphor is very important in both speech mechanisms and speech activities, anyhow, to state directly is necessary too.
As for the speech act of disagreement, especially disagreement within the pedagogical context, there are few researches on it.
It's a speech act. Come on, I'm not just making marks.
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