Function of Speech Acts

Laura met Anne at the restaurant at the appointed hour. Anne was accompanied by a younger woman who turned out to be her daughter. The daughter read the menu for her mother and Laura suspected that the older woman was illiterate.

Re-read lines 1 – 24, what can you tell about the teacher and the speaker.

Speech is way of communicating to people it means speaking, verbal communication or to express thoughts, feelings and ideas. Children may learn through copying other children or adults which helps them to produce sounds which will then help to say words that other people can understand. In my setting I have non-verbal children so there speech is usually babbling or making a gesture through pointing.

In the article, “Barriers,” the author Rolando Niella, compares his own experience of certain situations while playing tennis and speaking English, in order to expose the hardships of having conversations with foreigners to the international students who are not confident in English speaking. For example, trying to respond to a fast

Language is a very important and significant part of individuals’ life. It is considered as one of the best device of social behavior. Language is a means with the help of which people communicate and send a social message to one another. But language does have very special characteristics according to which it changes and very depending on many factors. According to the researchers there are no two people who speak identically. Their languages vary as per their geographic location, age, gender, ethnicity, social background etc. many a time, it is observed that even the members from same family speak differently due to differences in their location ( Biber & Conrad, 2014). For example, in my neighborhood, there is a difference in the ways of

Lancaster’s class communicate in a variety of ways ranging from talking using body language and mouthing words to all out yelling across the room, this behavior is evident in all of her classes. Standard English is not always used in this class between students, but between Lancaster and her students she prefers to use Standard English to communicate, but if she is in the middle of conducting and cannot talk she will use hand gestures to communicate. Also, conducting is her form of talking to tell her students to get louder, quieter, hold out notes, or stop playing or singing all together. In her class, no ESL students are enrolled, while there may be bilingual students, all of her students speak fluent English. Evans as a school offers foreign language classes that all students must attend for at least two years, but no “bilingual” courses are

She said that the class teachers her nutrition, how to care for children, and how to make sure you are giving children the adequate amount of attention needed while in the home. CW then asked Iva when she sees the children. Iva staes that visits are on Wednesday and Friday. She then stated that the children are seen at the home of Claris Kilianek. CW then told Iva that she was going to be very honest at this time and that needs Iva to be sure that she is telling the truth. CW then stated that it has communicated to CW that the children Mariah and Briahna have come to the home of the boyfriend to stay the night. Iva stated that this is not true. CW asked again to confirm what Iva said. Iva stated the same thing "The children have not come over here or spent the night. We only meet at Claris's

The author’s purpose in writing this essay is to show that there are different forms of English – there is no one way of speaking the language. The moment of realization for Tan occurs when she is speaking to a group of professionals and notices that she is speaking to them differently than she would her mother. Tan obviously sees the difference in her speech pattern when she notes, “Just last week, as I was walking down the street with her, I again found myself conscious of the English I was using, the English I do use with her.” (Tan, 2006) In spotting her different versions of English with her mother, Tan proves the point of her essay. She is correct in her theory that we speak to different people in our lives in a variety of different manners. She brings to light an occasion with her mother’s stockbroker where her mother’s “broken” English would have caused confusion and Tan had to represent her mother with a clearer English to make the point adequately. In that one memory, Tan integrates the English people believe they should hear and the English that exists in her life.

Mrs. Gonzales and Mrs. Saenz are trying their best to help Jose to succeed academically this year. After two months of Jose attending to Mrs. Gonzalez class he has improved a lot in his vocabulary. Every time the words are coming out more clear that at the begging of the school. Mrs. Saenz believes that eventually Jose will acquire the second language but she says that it make take more time than usual. Mrs. Gonzalez is glad of the improvement of Jose and she is willing to help him the next school year. Maria is truly thankful to the school staff especially to both of Jose teachers. The most important part is that Jose feels more secure and happy every day in his new school. In a few years Jose will acquire a new language and will be as successful as the other

Ken Kesey forms the intricate relationships among the characters in the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by the unique use of perspective and speech. Throughout the novel, Kesey depicts this connection between the public world and the seemingly closed off society inside the mental institution. This creates two separate spheres separated by a few walls and doors. Kesey goes on to form a unique perspective in the novel, told by a paranoid schizophrenic, with the narrator’s caricature-like description of characters in the novel. This makes the audience ponder if the narrator is always depicting images as they truly are. This evolves into the Speech-Act Theory, which illustrates reality versus false utterance. Through the

For this first assignment, the age group that is discussed in the paper is focused on middle adolescence from age sixteen to seventeen years of age. The adolescent that has been chosen for this observation paper is a senior in High school and have just recently started her job not long ago. The observation took place in the work setting and because it was a fast food restaurant it was hard to take note of her language skills due to the noises and chatting near by. Moreover, the building was crowded with customers dining around the lobby, there were loud chatting and noises from the play area however it was possible

To his most vehement critics, the aforementioned opinions demonstrate “contempt for American institutions” and too little respect for the Constitution, yet Brennan never acted without historical justification. In the eyes of the justice, progressive positions on civil rights, as well as abortion and the death penalty, were entirely consistent with the Founding Fathers’ clear championing of personal dignity and freedom expressed in the Bill of Rights and the later adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment. As such, if the court failed to uphold these rights by taking an originalist approach to the Constitution, they would, paradoxically, delineate from the very spirit of the document. Although Brennan earned a reputation for being amicable and open to compromise on the court bench, an impassioned speech given at Georgetown University in 1985 revealed his true thoughts concerning his colleagues who favoured judicial restraint: “It is arrogant to pretend that from our vantage we can gauge accurately the intent of the Framers on application of principle to specific, contemporary

"Or get up too early, although not sleepy but still want to sleep, how to do when class."Lecter talking to himself while opening the door.

SPECIFIC PURPOSE: By the end of my speech, my audience will know the history of Walt Disney, his invention of Disney World, and how his invention has impacted people.

The goal of this method is to help the students to be able to communicate in the target language. In order to achieve this purpose, the Audio-Lingual Method contains the following characteristics. Firstly, contextualized dialogs are utilized to present new vocabulary and structures in class. Secondly, the conversations are learned through drills which are considered as an integral part of the Audio-Lingual Method. In my own teaching, backward build-up drill, repetition drill and substitution drill contribute importantly the success of students’ learning. Next, grammar rules are induced from examples. By this approach, students personalize and use the grammatical points naturally like the way they acquire the native language. Based on above features, it is believed that the Audio-Lingual Method has a part in the communicative development of students in the target language.