TAILIEUCHUNG - Speech act types in conversations in the “New interchange” series

This is a study of speech acts in the conversations of New Interchange 1, 2, and 3. The aim of the study is to examine speech act types in the conversations investigated. Both quantitative approach and qualitative approach are employed with the assistance of descriptive, contrastive, analytic, and synthetic methods to help work out the best possible findings. | SPEECH ACT TYPES IN CONVERSATIONS IN THE “NEW INTERCHANGE” SERIES Nguyen Quang Ngoan*,1, Nguyen Thi Ngoc Dung2 Department of Foreign Languages, Quy Nhon University, 170 An Duong Vuong, Quy Nhon, Binh Dinh, Vietnam 2 Department of Education and Training, Quy Nhon, Binh Dinh, Vietnam 1 Received 01 August 2017 Revised 16 October 2017; Accepted 27 November 2017 Abstract: This is a study of speech acts in the conversations of New Interchange 1, 2, and 3. The aim of the study is to examine speech act types in the conversations investigated. Both quantitative approach and qualitative approach are employed with the assistance of descriptive, contrastive, analytic, and synthetic methods to help work out the best possible findings. The data consist of a total of 784 turns comprising 8126 words in 97 conversations of New Interchange 1, 2, and 3. The study shows interesting results concerning speech act types. To be more specific, although there is a strong tendency for combination of different speech act types, single speech act groups are preferred with the predominance of representatives. Keywords: speech act types, New Interchange series, conversations 1. Introduction Let’s begin with “Hello”, which can be performed in the three following ways: (1) Hello. (2) Hello! (3) Hello? It can be easily realized that there are three different punctuation marks after “Hello” (and of course three different tunes), possibly leading to different classifications of speech acts. For example, as regards speech act types, (1) and (2) are greetings, belonging to the larger group of expressives with (2) expressing the speaker’s stronger emotion, while (3) shows the signal of an offer to help which can be classified as a commissive. As a matter of fact, studying speech acts is one of the core issues in studying languages. According to Nguyễn Quang Ngoạn and Nguyễn Tiến Phùng (2007: 26-29), there have been a number of studies on speech acts,  * Corresponding author. Tel.: .

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