| 41. | An independent clause realises a speech act such as a statement, a question, a command or an offer.
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| 42. | He sees a sharp distinction between the individual text and the total speech act situation surrounding it.
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| 43. | The more presumed information pertaining to the request, the more indirect the speech act may be considered to be.
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| 44. | This latter way of drawing the distinction is an important part of John Searle's influential theory of speech acts.
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| 45. | Subjectification occurs in conversation ( through speech acts and has rhetorical aims, and thus implies some degree of intersubjectivity.
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| 46. | Oh, and see speech act.
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| 47. | Christian theology is therefore regarded as the interpretation of this speech act between the justifying God and the justified sinner.
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| 48. | UP shares with speech act theory, semiotics, and linguistics an interest in the details of language use and communicative action.
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| 49. | Dashes instead of quotation marks for dialogue to indicate the start of speech acts to portray the devastating conditions in South Africa.
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| 50. | Freedom of speech acts as a " safety valve " to let off steam when people might otherwise be bent on revolution.
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