1. Could speech act theory have helped them decide?

2. In fact, he suggests that speech act theory and deconstruction complement, rather than contradict, each other.

3. Speech act theory assumes that there is one neat, verbally expressible illocution to each locution.

4. From the perspective of linguistics, the speech act of apology is a part ofcommunicative activities.

5. Theory of speech act, advanced first by Austin, and inherited and developed by Searle, has been generally accepted.

6. Austin's speech act theory, the principle of cooperation in Gricean and Hovland, and others persuaded of the study, this paper basis of the three theoretical.

7. Indirect request is a speech act in which the requests are performed in an indirect manner.

8. Fuzzy rhetoric, a speech act of high aesthetic value, has its re-creative functions such as implicitness, imagery, obscurity, and emotions.

9. This is a cross cultural study the speech act of apology, using two questionnaires.

10. In this paper, we discuss speech act verbs of English and Chinese, the comparable cognitive features and the classification of the semantic structure of sentences.

11. But Austin, who puts forward speech act theory, maintains that language is not only referent, but also performative.

12. Speech act include direct speech act and indirect speech act.

13. Paralanguage, a feature of nonverbal communication, is a speech act which is worth studying and is one of the important subjects in pragmatics study.

14. Greetings are the most frequently used speech act in our daily life.

15. Refusal speech act was an interactive verbal behavior targeting for'refusal '.

16. Narration is a basic speech act upon which people tell and retell their experience.

17. Declarative a speech act which changes the state of affairs in the world.

18. Speech act includes locutionary act, illocutionary act and perlocutionary act.

19. Apology is a frequently-appeared speech act in English and Chinese linguistic communication, and plays an important role in Chinese and western culture.

20. The indirect apodosis is often a speech act without a speech - act prefix.

21. An approach which tries to formulate how such knowledge is brought into play is speech act theory.

22. Students of literature who are sympathetic to, and at least partially acquainted with, speech act theory should find the arguments stimulating.

23. This lack of explicitness will surely limit the significance of the book for researchers working in speech act theory and related fields.

24. Even resistant readers will find much informative discussion of speech act theory and related matters.

25. Of course, there is no reason why a book on speech act theory should discuss alternative approaches at all.

26. The socio-psychological analysis of language indirectness is significant to develop indirect speech act theory and understand and use indirect language.

27. Chapter 3: This chapter explains the cause that the indirect speech act brings up,() politesse is the principal reason.

28. In accordance with the weak link, the author will discuss the Chinese false speech act.

29. Through a Discourse Completion Test, we tested 125 foreign students and 48 Chinese students' pragmatic levels in the speech act of requests.

30. Then, we make a research that the definiteness and indefiniteness of the denotational information are both meet the needs of speech act.

31. In pragmatics views, speech act is a cardinal points of language communication.

32. This paper, focusing on the dramatic irony, tries to analyze Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet in terms of speech act theory, which has also been applied to literary works in recent years.

33. The third chapter analyzes narrative report of speech act and its effects in The Magic Barrel.

34. The system of interactive analysis of classroom speech act was put forward by American educator , Ned.

35. Discourse Completion Test (DCT) and Multiple Choice Test (MCQ) -two data elicitation techniques - are widely used in eliciting speech act data on cross-cultural pragmatics studies.

36. A pragmatic study is conducted mainly from two perspectives of speech act and social deixis.

37. The Speech Act Theory is one of the most important theories in pragmatics study.

38. Speech act theory, conversational implicative theory and relevant theory all function in the interpretation of implicit coherence.

39. This is also explainable in virtue of the explanatory power that speech act theory has in describing conversational sequencing.

40. The thesis deals with speech act of Chinese criticism adopting analysis and quantitative analysis.

41. Indirect use of language has lent itself to considerable discussion in the indirect speech act theory, though limited to cross-sentential multifunctionality under the name of indirectness.

42. Speech act theory is an important theory in the pragmatic study of language.

43. Speech act theory is one of the important parts of pragmatics.

44. At last, an illustration in the understanding instance of indirect directive speech act is explained.