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From Utterances to Speech Acts

By Mikhail Kissine

"Kissine offers a new theory of speech acts which is philosophically sophisticated and builds on work in cognitive science, formal semantics, and linguistic typology. This highly readable, brilliant essay is a major contribution to the field."

--François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod



Query Details


Query Subject:   Critical Discourse Analysis and Teaching
Author:   Hamed Azizinia
Submitter Email:  click here to access email

Linguistic LingField(s):  Discourse Analysis
Pragmatics
Writing Systems

Query:   In TEFL area, I work on a project and a M.A. thesis these days. My
colleagues and I demonstrate the relationship between discursive structures
and ideological structures in formal sample speeches through Fairclough’s
(1989,1995) Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) model. This process is
performed in Persian that is our native language.

On the other hand, we’ve decided to use the results of this critical
analysis in teaching English. Since we have seen lots of shortcomings in
our subjects’ essays (our subjects are upper-intermediate learners of
English) which all came from their ignorance of using discursive
structures, we tried to show the importance of main discursive structures
and their lacks in our subjects’ writings. Here, we want to provide a
connection between our CDA results and their pedagogical application in
writing but we cannot agree on the methodology for providing this goal.

Please, tell us:

What methodology can we use here? And, How can we indicate this connection
systematically?
LL Issue: 16.3197
Date posted: 07-Nov-2005



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