Browsing by Subject "Speech acts"
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The creation of identity through dialogue in Se se jeleng rre by J.M. Ntsime
(North-West University, 2007)Dialogue, as the central constitutive element of drama, to a large extent also contributes to delineating characters and to affirming their identity. This dissertation is an attempt to investigate how dialogue creates ... -
Describing and explaining the variation of Bantu imperatives and prohibitives
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013)This paper describes Bantu imperatival and prohibitival speech acts. The study is set against the background of the formal instability of directives and grammaticalization theory. On the basis of a sample of 100 languages, ...