78f.)‚ hendiadys (l. 80) and repetition oft he word what (l. 91) Othello is in control of his language and is able to use it systematically in order to influence his listeners. His speech reveals a high degree of eloquence. | IV‚1 * unstructured utterances * short and incomplete sentences * many exclamations * pun on the word lie (l. 35f.) * repetition of the words handkerchief (ll. 37+ 43) and confession (ll. 37+39+42) * illogical connection of the verbs to confess and to hang by means
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engagements as Secretary of the Historical Association recently formed at his college. And this exactly is what more often than not happens to all our best intentions. The passage thus reveals Narayan’s ironic awareness of the fundamental contrast between what men intend to do and what they are actually able to do. Srinivas in Mr. Sampath encounters the extraordinary character of Sampath at the Bombay Anand Bhawan in Market Road. Sampath is a printer who owns the Truth Printing Works in Kabir
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“What are your interests‚ Candidate 217?” The entire room was pure‚ brilliant white. The lack of colour was making him blink a little too much‚ so he chose to focus on the only object in the room that didn’t harm his eyes; a stunning brooch that graced the lapels of his interviewer’s jacket. Simple and elegant in design‚ a square‚ red ruby sat in its flawless nest of silver or platinum‚ his money on the latter. “I…don’t really have any‚ to be honest.” He felt like an idiot the moment he’d
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I. Introduction Communicative competence is a linguistic term for the ability not only to apply the grammatical rules of a language to form correct utterances‚ but also to know when to use these utterances appropriately. The term was coined by Dell Hymes in 1966‚ reacting against the inadequacy of Noam Chomsky’s distinction between competence and performance. Dell Hymes proposed the concept of communicative competence which claimed that a speaker can be able to produce grammatical sentences that
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not concerned with motive‚ concerned with (?) expositives expositional performatives ; the main body of the utterance has generally or often the straightforward form of a statement‚ but there is an explicit performative verb at its head verdicitves: can be descriptive merely of a state of mind Classes: 1. Locution act is the performance of an utterance‚ and hence of a speech act. a. Phonetic Act the act of making a sound‚ uttering certain noises b. Phatic Act uttering certain words or vocables
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express. It can be defined as the ability of language users to perform social acts in the form of utterances they make. Speech Act Theory arose as a tool to interpret the meaning and function of words in different speech situations. Simply put‚ it is a theory about what people set out to accomplish when they choose to speak. Ndimele (2007: 33) observes that the essence of speech act theory is that utterances are acts in themselves capable of producing enormous and far reaching results or consequences
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Text linguistics Module I. Classificationally meaningful characteristics of the text as an integral and independent object of investigation. Lecture 6. Conceptual variability of linguistic interpretations of the text essence and status and their reflections in the models of the text descriptions. Problem for discussion Evolution of the text description approaches. Models of the text descriptions. Grounds for the chosen models and schemes of the text descriptions
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order to achieve needed communicative-functional result (communicative competence). The subject matter of this research is the pragmatic peculiarities of the utterances with Subjunctive Mood in the Modern English language. The aim of this research is to investigate the pragmatic peculiarities of the utterances with Subjunctive Mood in the Modern English language by means of analytical examination of the modern English literary texts. The matter of the peculiarities of pragmatic
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and linguistic knowledge (e.g.‚ grammar‚ lexicon‚ etc.) of the speaker and listener‚ but also on the context of the utterance‚ any preexisting knowledge about those involved‚ and other factors. In this respect‚ pragmatics explains how language users are able to overcome apparent ambiguity‚ since meaning relies on the manner‚ place‚ time etc. of an utterance. In pragmatics‚ an utterance is most often taken to be a linguistic action performed by a certain speaker in a certain place at a certain moment
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English to use the expression form like “well”‚ “oh”‚ “you know”‚ “you see”‚ “I mean”‚ “that is to say”‚ “in other words”‚ “as I said”‚ which are all discourse markers. They are small words which do not contribute to the propositional content of the utterance which they modify. The present paper focuses on the pragmatic functions of the discourse marker WELL in verbal interaction. It is beneficial for English learners to analyzing its pragmatic functions in translation practice. Keywords discourse marks;
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