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Example I order you to do the dishes

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A speaker can make an indirect request (or other directive) by either asking whether or stating that a preparatory condition concerning the hearer’s ability to do a certain action obtains.

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Speech acts as units of analysis

A speech act is an utterance that has a performative function.

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I look out of the window and say “it`s raining”. From the context, it is clear that I`m asserting this proposition to be true

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Metaphors are a form of figurative language, which refers to words or expressions that mean something different from their literal definition

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From the perspective of linguistic anthropology, these discussions about how and where to locate the knowledge that speakers and hearers have in producing and interpreting utterances are important and yet problematic for at least two reasons. First, they are done without apparent awareness that the phenomena and principles invoked by the analyst might be culture-specific.

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Searle’s extension of Austin’s theory to a much wider range of acts constituted a more general theory of human communication and human psychology (Searle 1969, 1983). As pointed out by a number of linguistic and cultural anthropologists, such a theory seems at odds with an anthropological understanding of human action and its interpretation in context .ubtema

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