Discourse analysis

Role play 2
Role 1 You bought a new scarf and decided to put it on. You are embarrassed a little and worry how to respond your colleagues if they notice it. You’ve just arrived at work and hearing your friends compliment
Role 2 Your colleague put on a new and very beautiful scarf, it is hard not to notice it. Even you know that she is shy make a compliments.
Role play 3
Role 1. You’d like to discuss you problem with your friend, expecting she/ he might provide you with possible solution. Tell that your new boss required workers come at 8 o’clock. But your situation doesn’t promise too much. You have to take your child to the nursery, and because of the traffic jam, the fastest you may come at 8^30.
Role 2: Your friend’s sharing with you about her concerns, coming to work at 8 o’clock which seems impossible, because she has to take her child to the nursery. And too much traffic jam doesn’t allow her to come earlier than 8.³⁰
As other groups are presenting their roles try to analyze the structure of utterance i.e. making complaints, making compliments, giving advises i.e. how it starts, follows and ends.

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  Why do we use the language? To complain, to give instructions, to advice, to request, to make complements, to give an order and etc. The sentences, the words, the phrases we use in our speech – have their own functions. Each of them performing a particular act. This small piece of language, which always used in particular context are called SPEECH ACTs.
  
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  There are some classification of speech acts according to Austin ( 1962) and Searle ( 1969)
  

These include:
Directiveness,
Comissiveness
Representatives,
Declaratives, and Expressiveness
Activity 3 Look at the following sentences. Work with your groups and predict who is the speaker, who is the addressee, what relation speaker has to addressee. After discussing the task read the definitions of the speech acts below and compare each utterance with the name of speech act.

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   I need …. ( I want)
   

May I have……
Could you give me….
This has to be done over. What about …?
b. May be I can do it tomorrow
Don’t worry I‘ll be there
I already gave an office

3. 
   I am so very disappointed
   

What a great day!
Oh my! That’s terrible

3. 
   “I now pronounce you husband and wife”
   

“I declare this truth to be self- evident”

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  Directives are the statements where request being made so that someone will do or stop doing something. In English there are basically two forms of directives : imperative and polite imperatives
  
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