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3621:2024:description_of_a_speech_event [2024/01/15 23:37] Ryan Schram (admin)3621:2024:description_of_a_speech_event [2024/01/15 23:40] (current) Ryan Schram (admin)
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 ====== Description of a speech event ====== ====== Description of a speech event ======
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 +## Description of a speech event 
  
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 Put otherwise, a speech event is a type of event in which people engage in speech acts, or use speech to take an action. A speech event will be typically be found in a specific speech situation. The classic example of a speech event is a //greeting//, for instance, between Alice and Bahadur: Put otherwise, a speech event is a type of event in which people engage in speech acts, or use speech to take an action. A speech event will be typically be found in a specific speech situation. The classic example of a speech event is a //greeting//, for instance, between Alice and Bahadur:
  
-A: Hey, how are you?    +A: Hey, how are you? 
-B: I’m good, and you?  + 
-A: I’m good.   +B: I’m good, and you? 
-B: That’s good.+ 
 +A: I’m good. 
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 +B: That’s good. 
  
 Creative, no. Meaningful, yes. Consider if in this actual instance, in line 3, Alice elongated or raised the pitch on the //oo// in //good//. What if she said nothing (cf. //“Jimbo” [Cingular Wireless]// 2006)? Creative, no. Meaningful, yes. Consider if in this actual instance, in line 3, Alice elongated or raised the pitch on the //oo// in //good//. What if she said nothing (cf. //“Jimbo” [Cingular Wireless]// 2006)?
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