Analysis of speech act of promising in Hungarian language use

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Published: Jul 4, 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14232/jeny.2016.1.4
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speech acts, promise, apology, sincere promise, Discourse Completion Task

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Diána Nowosielski
University of Szeged, General Linguistics Department

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This article includes the analysis of speech acts in pragmatics, including an analysis of an illocutionary act in Hungarian language use. The theoretical part includes classical and new theories too, however, the method was a DCT (Discourse Completion Task). I analyzed the connection between promising and remedial work as well as the problem of the sincere and insincere promises. The evaluation of test concluded what types of promises are used by Hungarian students and presented different types of situations through some social factors. I identified four types of promises: face-protective promises, remedial promises, refusal promises and conditional promises. I studied the role of social distance and social class on these types. The important result of this paper is that promise often occurs with another illocutionary act, parts of sequences.

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Nowosielski, D. 2016. Analysis of speech act of promising in Hungarian language use. Jelentés és Nyelvhasználat. 3, 1 (Jul. 2016), 63–98. DOI:https://doi.org/10.14232/jeny.2016.1.4.
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Diána Nowosielski, University of Szeged, General Linguistics Department

Diana Nowosielski is a student of the Department of General Linguistics at University of Szeged, Faculty of Arts. She started her studies in 2012 at Hungarian Literature and Linguistics with the specialization of language technology from 2013. Her current research area is pragmatics but she would like to expand her ongoing investigation with neuro- and psycholinguistic aspects.

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