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Allegory 5 Aug 2013 | 10:50 pm
Allegory which comes from Greek, allos means other and agoreuein that means to speak in public, is figurative mode of representation conveying a meaning other than literal meaning. Allegory is one of ...
Positive Politeness Strategies (Brown and Levinson) 26 Jun 2013 | 11:22 am
Positive politeness is redress directed to the addressee’s positive face, his perennial desire that his wants (or the actions/ acquisitions/ values resulting from them) should be thought of as desirab...
Leech's Politeness Principles 25 Jun 2013 | 05:49 pm
Politeness concerns a relationship between self and other. In conversation, self is identified as the speaker and other is the hearer. Beside that, the speaker also shows politeness to the third parti...
Brown and Levinson's Politeness Strategies 22 May 2013 | 01:20 am
As it has been discussed in the previous article: means of communication, that as a means of communication, related to discourse study, language has two primary functions, those are, transactional and...
The Functions of Illocutionary Acts 20 May 2013 | 09:19 pm
Leech's (1993:104) purposes the illocutionary acts based on its functions. It is according to how illocutionary acts relate to the social goals or purposes of establishing and maintaining politeness. ...
Kinds of Performative Utterance 20 May 2013 | 08:28 pm
Yule (1996: 53-54) states that one general classification system lists five types of general functions performed by speech acts, those are: 1. Directives A directive speech act is an attempt by speak...
Seven Theories of Second Language Acquisition 2 May 2013 | 09:34 pm
The Role of Theory in SLA research 1. The description: the characterization of the nature of the linguistic categories which constitute the learner’s inter-language at any point in development (what,...
SLA: Universal Hypothesis and A Neurofunctional Theory 2 May 2013 | 09:33 pm
6. The Universal Hypothesis A language pattern or phenomenon which occurs in all known languages. For example, it has been suggested that: a. if a language has dual number for referring to just two so...
SLA: Monitor and Variable Competence Model 2 May 2013 | 09:33 pm
4. The Monitor Model Krashen’s Monitor Model has enjoyed considerable prominence in SLA research. However, as I shall attempt to show later, the theory is seriously flawed in a number of respects, in ...
SLA: Accomodation and Discourse Theory 2 May 2013 | 09:32 pm
2. Accommodation Theory Accommodation theory is derived from the research of Giles and associates into inter-group uses in multilingual communities such as Britain. His primary concern is to investiga...
