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Diploma paper

The speech act of gratitude in dialogic discourse

gratitude dialogue discourse

Speech act in very important in our lives.to the theory of John Austin & Searle

. Speaking a language is engaging in a highly complex rule-governed form of behavior.

. All linguistic communication involves linguistic acts.

. The study of meanings of sentences and the study of speech acts are not two independent studies, but one study from two different points of view.

. The speech act is the basic unit of communication.

. The principle of expression - while language doesn't have a word for everything, we are capable of describing anything by using language or adding to it.

. Based on 4 & 5, there is a relationship between the notion of speech acts, what the speaker means, what the sentence uttered means, what the speaker intends, what the hearer understands, and what the rules governing the linguistic elements are.are 3 types of speech acts forces:

. locutionary forces: the actual speaking / hearing of words

. illocutionary forces: stating, questioning, commanding, promising, etc.

(speaker's meaning)

. perlocutionary forces: correlated with illocutionary acts - the effects on others

(meaning as heard by hearer)

(may or may not be the same as the illocutionary act)of Speech Acts (from Dr. Aune's Summary of Speech Acts):

Directives - world to words (hearer); requesting, ordering, interrogating.

Assertives - words to world; asserting, concluding, informing, reporting, predicting.

Commissives - world to words (speaker); promising, threatening, guaranteeing.

Declaratives - world to words & vice versa; performing a marriage, declaring war, calling a runner «out.»

Expressives - null; thanking, complaining, greeting, apologizing [39].my opinion: telling people what we think they should do (directive), just telling something we think (assertive), telling ourselves what we think we should do (commissive), telling a fact or idea (declarative), telling an emotion (expressive).is, in essence, the expression of a thought in which our heartfelt emotions go out to others for the role they have played in bringing about good fortune in our lives. The object of our appreciation and thanks may be one other person, a group of people, a social entity, or even life itself. (In its highest form, it is to recognize a Divine hand at work - i.e. Grace.) Because gratitude is a higher emotion, a spiritual emotion, even an attitude of the soul, it has the power to not only create a stronger bond, e.g. a sense of harmony and unity with others, but it can to elicit the infinite possibilities of life. In other words, expressing our heartfelt appreciation and thanks can attract magnificent positive responses from life.is a spiritual emotion, an attitude of the soul, which puts us in touch with the Spirit and has the power to attract the action of the Spirit, i.e. positive responses of life, continuously in our lives. For one who wishes to make such action of Spirit a permanent feature of his own life, a good beginning is to review one's past and locate at least one such event in which one was blessed by unexpected luck or escape from expected misfortune as a result of the invocation of Spirit. To feel gratitude for these occurrences enables the permanent Spiritual action that infinitely benefits our lives [28, p. 234].we offer our thanks and appreciation for the efforts of others - whether individuals or organizations or society - we move from the ego plane to the universal and transcendent planes.way we express the spirit in life is through an act of gratitude. When we offer our thanks and appreciation for the efforts of others - whether individuals or organizations or society - we move from the ego plane to the universal and transcendent planes. It is that movement that releases concentrations of energy that align with powerful positive conditions that come back to us as instances of sudden good fortune., the topic of our investigation is «The Speech Act of Gratitude in Dialogic Discourse».

The topicality of our investigation is predetermined by the importance to research thoroughly the nature of gratitude in the dialogic speech. The matter is also topical because of the lack of theoretical and practical investigations on our diploma subject matter.object of the investigation is speech act of gratitude.subject of the investigation is functioning of gratitude act in the dialogic discourse.

The purpose of the investigation is to research specific features of speech act of gratitude in dialogic discourse.reach the purpose of the investigation we have specified the following tasks of the diploma essay.

consider the act of gratitude and its peculiarities;

investigate the dialogue act;

determine specific features of dialogic discourse;

identify the meaning of gratitude in dialogs;

find examples which illustrate functioning of gratitude expressions in dialogic discourse.

The structure of the diploma paper includes introduction, two chapters, conclusion, and bibliography.

.1 Act of gratitude and its peculiarities

live in an era of compulsory gratefulness. Ministers scold us to thank God for all His blessings. New Age gurus demand an «attitude of gratitude.» We're told we must give thanks for the slightest of gifts. It's all about being grateful, if we want to create a life lived humbly yet well.toward the corral of gratitude, most of us routinely mouth about how grateful we are. Then we show how deep our gratitude is in the most insubstantial, inadequate, even inane ways.is cognitive and emotional reaction arising

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