Speech Act & Theory Of Speech Acts | Assignment
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Speech Act & Theory Of Speech Acts | Assignment
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TABLE OF CONTENT1. METHODOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES FOR ANALYSIS.....................................................3a. speech-acts ( Quentin Skinner, Visions of Politics)...........................................................32. DISCUSSION ON THE CHOSEN METHODOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE............................3a) Possibilities and limitations of the implicated methodological perspective.......................3b) Objects of the study............................................................................................................3c) Discussion on the considered facts of the chosen article...................................................4d) Encountered difficulties.....................................................................................................4e) Learnings from the analysis...............................................................................................5REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
1. METHODOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES FOR ANALYSISa. Speech-acts ( Quentin Skinner, Visions of Politics)As per the views of Skinner, speech is also considered to an action. Theory of speech acts isconcerned with the philosophy of action. It also explains the role of causality during explanationof behaviour. Improvement in the awareness about the aspects of speech and writing is importantto understand the association between power and language (Skinner, 2001, p.5). Speech actanalysis should not be considered as merely a piece of philosophical jargon. 2. DISCUSSION ON THE CHOSEN METHODOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVEa) Possibilities and limitations of the implicated methodological perspectiveThere are various possibilities and limitations of speech acts. It is basically to discuss upon some factual opportunities and limitations of an abstractiveframework that has been implicated over here to discuss on the elected article of speech that washeld by the President George W. Bush to U.S. Congress dated on 20 September, 2001. In relationto which, a conceptual study has hereby acted as a filtering tool that has further aided to gobeyond the descriptive message of the speech as a mean of explaining its materialisticrepresentation. However, on referring to some of its limited perceptions, it has been interpretedthat it is comprised with both initial and ongoing forums of biasses (Skinner, 2001). The initialsense of partiality is basically when the study duly gets influenced by the proposed thoughts ofthe individual with another fact of ongoing partiality. It is when the surveyor is influenced by theevolved perception of the study with a fact of giving value to certain things and disregardingothers that in turn interrupt into the inbuilt balance of the study.Limitations of speech-act is that it is not sufficient to analyse verbal communication. However,the possibility is that it can be expected that a vital role can be played by speech acts in empiricaltheory of language and communication. But, another limitation with speech- acts is that thesesuffer with problems of identifiability of unit acts. b) Objects of the studyThe objects of study in the chosen texts were speech- acts. A methodological perspective ofspeech-acts has been opted to conceptualise the study that has presented a speech given by thePresident George W. Bush to U.S. Congress dated on 20 September, 2001. On whose basis, the
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