Sentence examples for a discourse act from inspiring English sources

Hunston (2000: 183) pointed out that the key distinction between the two planes lies in what is being evaluated – "a discourse act in the discourse itself (interactive) or something else (autonomous)".

If their pranks, insults and disorder seem harmless, the decline in the level of public discourse act as a precursor to the violent and destructive acts at the novel's conclusion.

So in practice, the analytic approximation to the speaker's performance of discourse act types is far removed from the complexity of the contextual factors which impinge on his or her actual utterance acts in some specific context.

Discourse "acts as a powerful ordering force in [and by] organizations" [3] because meaning is negotiated in organizations, and these meanings shape organizational practices [4], as well as the external presentation of organizations.

The findings indicated that the activeness of tutor scaffolding was related to the higher frequency of students' task-related discourse acts, as well as their ability to generate a mutually accepted ownership of problem representations in teams.

The relationships of different tutor scaffolding styles with students' discourse acts and their decision-making variables were studied.

Quasi-hegemonic societal discourses act on wealthy entrepreneurs, urging them to embrace particular moralities by assuming 'publicly available "personas" or social-identities' (Watson, 2008: 12008

A further discourse 'midwives act irresponsibly when attending a women birthing at home' serves to discredit the professionalism of the midwives.

Consider Chuck Todd's question, "Why not ask BP to simply step aside on the onshore stuff?" Obama's response was a discourse on the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, BP's contracts with contractors, and the fact that "the Coast Guard and our military are potentially already in charge".

Catholicism acts as a discourse within English that creates a bridge between dominant Euro-American and Native American discourses.

A Discourse of Witchcrafte As It Was Acted in the Family of Mr Edward Fairfax of Fuistone was written by Fairfax himself, following the death of his youngest daughter in October 1621.