The functioning of all societies, either human or animal, is possible thanks to communication. It consists of an act through which an individual establishes with another one or others a contact which will enable...
First of all we have the persons participating in the speech event: the roles of the addressor and the addressee...
Modern grammar studies language taking into account forms and not meanings. Grammatical theory is not the base of the linguistic education. It serves us to get the methodical practise of speaking...
Speaking is the productive skill in the oral mode. It is more complicated than it seems at first and involves more than just pronouncing words...
The written form of language is contained in printed documents, such as newspapers, magazines and books, and in handwritten matter, such as found in notebooks and personal letters...
From the point of view of production, it is clear that spoken and written language make somewhat different demands on language producers, the speaker and the writer...
Austin makes the distinction of 3 kinds of acts...
The resources that give “texture” to a piece of discourse, without which it would not be discourse, are the following...
Direct speech purports to give the exact words that someone utters or has uttered in speech or writing...
Narration is to tell an event or some events that have taken place, are taking place or will take place in the sequence of time. Narration fixes the actions that occur in a succession of time...