October 12, 2017

INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS – SPEECH ACT AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS


INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS – SPEECH ACT AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Learning to communicate in a language involves more than acquiring the pronunciation and grammar. We need to learn how to ask question, make suggestion, greet and thank other speakers. In other words we need to learn the uses to which utterances are conventionally put in the new language community and how these uses are signaled. The terminology of such function of language is called speech acts.


 
INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS – SPEECH ACT AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS