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Kitao, S. Kathleen; Kitao, Kenji – Research-publishing.net, 2013
Data-driven learning (DDL) is an inductive approach to language learning in which students study examples of authentic language and use them to find patterns of language use. This inductive approach to learning has the advantages of being learner-centered, encouraging hypothesis testing and learner autonomy, and helping develop learning skills.…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Computational Linguistics, Language Research, Personal Autonomy
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Wechsler, Stephen – Language, 2010
This article offers a DE SE THEORY of person indexicals, wherein first- and second-person indexical pronouns indicate REFERENCE DE SE (also called SELF-ASCRIPTION). Long observed for first-person pronouns (Castaneda 1977, Kaplan 1977, Perry 1979, inter alia), self-ascription is extended here to second person as well. The person feature of a…
Descriptors: Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Autism, Cognitive Ability
Jung, Woo-hyun – 1994
This discussion of the speech act of thanking looks at the basic functions of the act and responses to it in American English. It is argued that in general, "thank you" expressions are used to express appreciation of benefits and to enhance rapport between interlocutors, and that this basic use is extended to the functions of conversational…
Descriptors: Cultural Traits, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Communication, Language Patterns
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Caccia, Paul – English Journal, 1991
Describes the use of language analysis and speech-act categories (declarations, assertives, directives, commissives, and expressives) to deal with meaningful classroom concerns, thereby enabling the teacher and students to work more effectively together. (KEH)
Descriptors: Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Language Arts, Language Patterns
Minami, Masahiko – 1996
This paper examines two studies on language development and narrative discourse structure by looking at how language shapes and is shaped by culture-specific experiences. Conversations between 20 middle-class Japanese preschoolers, aged 4-5 years old, and their mothers were analyzed to study differences in narrative elicitation by mothers towards…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Huttar, George, Ed.; Gregerson, Kenneth, Ed. – 1986
A collection of essays on aspects of pragmatics in non-Western cultures includes these papers: "Social Rank and Tunebo Requests" (Paul Headland); "The Use of Reported Speech in Saramaccan Discourse" (Naomi Glock); "An Analysis of Illocutionary Verbs in Walmatjari" (Joyce Hudson); "Please Be Specific: A Functional…
Descriptors: African Languages, Creoles, Discourse Analysis, English
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Chapman, David – On-Call, 1997
Investigates the effect of oral and electronic media on interaction patterns by learners of Japanese as a second language. The framework for the analysis of learner is speech act theory, which provides a richly developed set of descriptive categories by which to examine interactional processes. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Computer Mediated Communication, Discourse Analysis
Lofstrom, Jonas – 1982
Sociolinguistic Studies in a Data Base of Spoken Swedish (Sprakdata) is a project to describe the language from a semantic-communicative point of view. The purposes are to (1) investigate the possibility of grouping informants based on results of a semantic-communicative analysis of recorded spoken language and (2) examine possible…
Descriptors: Classification, Communication (Thought Transfer), Computer Oriented Programs, Correlation