SPEECH ACTS IN EVERYDAY LIFE
Finally, in order to
complete this "unit", here's an audio file recorded by a fun guy who
speaks about Speech Acts and how, knowing on what they're based, people
mainly uses them to "lie".
Needless to say, this is a parody. Nevertheless, we get many nice examples of how Locutionary,
Illocutionary and Perlocutionary acts are performed in real life.
Taken from Youtube.com and converted into MP3 with the kind permission of http://www.youtube.com/user/BenLoka?feature=watch
viernes, 25 de mayo de 2012
As Linguistics is a huge field of study, I recommend you to have a look on these pages, mainly online journals about Ideology, Stylistics, Pragmatics, Semantics, etc.
- http://www.discourses.org/resources/journals/
- http://www.davidcrystal.com/David_Crystal/stylistics.htm
- http://www.equinoxpub.com/JAL
I had the pleasure of attending a talk about Ideology recently, given by Teun Van Dijk. This is his page:
There is also a very interesting link about the pronunciation in many different languages which I discovered recently:
- http://www.discourses.org/resources/journals/
- http://www.davidcrystal.com/David_Crystal/stylistics.htm
- http://www.equinoxpub.com/JAL
I had the pleasure of attending a talk about Ideology recently, given by Teun Van Dijk. This is his page:
There is also a very interesting link about the pronunciation in many different languages which I discovered recently:
jueves, 24 de mayo de 2012
SPEECH ACT THEORY in The Big Bang Theory
Once understood what a speaker can do (and most of the time does unknowingly) with language and how this is reflected in utterances, we may understand better the main character Sheldon Cooper and why he is the funniest one of the sitcom.
In other words, Sheldon does not perceive these uses people make of language, and thus, is utterly unable to perceive irony, sarcasm, etc. when somebody is messing with him or, on the contrary, when his friends do actually mean what they are saying.
Here you have a video which illustrates his "social/linguistic clumsiness":
Obviously, there are more factors (tone, gestures, facial expression) besides only the words Penny uses which hint that she does not want to be a waitress at the Cheescake Factory for the rest of her life.
It goes even further when Leonard asks somewhat rhetorically:
"For God's sake, Sheldon. Do I have to pull out a sarcasm sign everytime I open my mouth?"
As usual, Sheldon doesn't get the point and asks -more interested in the apparent fact (according to Leonards previous utterance): "You have a sarcasm sign?!".
The latter question is actually about another interesting topic: Presupposition.
Once understood what a speaker can do (and most of the time does unknowingly) with language and how this is reflected in utterances, we may understand better the main character Sheldon Cooper and why he is the funniest one of the sitcom.
In other words, Sheldon does not perceive these uses people make of language, and thus, is utterly unable to perceive irony, sarcasm, etc. when somebody is messing with him or, on the contrary, when his friends do actually mean what they are saying.
Here you have a video which illustrates his "social/linguistic clumsiness":
Obviously, there are more factors (tone, gestures, facial expression) besides only the words Penny uses which hint that she does not want to be a waitress at the Cheescake Factory for the rest of her life.
It goes even further when Leonard asks somewhat rhetorically:
"For God's sake, Sheldon. Do I have to pull out a sarcasm sign everytime I open my mouth?"
As usual, Sheldon doesn't get the point and asks -more interested in the apparent fact (according to Leonards previous utterance): "You have a sarcasm sign?!".
The latter question is actually about another interesting topic: Presupposition.
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