Speech act

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Conversation analysis presumes that the participants in a conversation are playing a "language game," in which they take turns and make moves. We can quickly see some of the "devices" people use to work out the turns of the game, allocating turns and selecting speaker with devices like the adjacency pair: linked speech acts such as question-answer, greeting-farewell, and invitation-acceptance that a speaker uses to establish expectations about who will speak next and what they will do. (...)

John Langshaw "J. L." Austin (26 March 1911 – 8 February 1960) was a British philosopher of language. He is remembered primarily as the developer of the theory of speech acts.[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._L._Austin

How certain speech acts perform actions and alter our social reality.

In English grammar and speech-act theory, a performative verb is a verb that explicitly conveys the kind of speech act being performed.

The boss is somebody whose job is telling people what to do. Leadership is much more.

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Public Speaking

This is a copy of my article originally published in t ETAS Journal in December 2013, volume 31, issue number 1 , pp 48 - 50. This article ...

Enunciation is a skill everyone could benefit from practicing, especially before a public speech, a singing performance, or just a crowded, noisy gathering. With enough practice, anyone can change, mumbling, mispronunciations, or...