Sentence examples for act of requesting from inspiring English sources

The speech act of asking a question is standardly regarded, e.g., by Searle (1969, 69), as a special case of the illocutionary act of requesting.

Milbank interviewed the Philadelphia Inquirer's food critic, Craig LaBan, who called the act of requesting Swiss cheese evidence of "an alternative lifestyle".

In a move that has set many liberal eyes to rolling, the religious non-profits are claiming moral opposition, not just to providing contraceptives -- a claim the Obama administration respects -- but also to the very act of requesting the exemption, which activates the insurance company or a third party to step in to provide the contraceptive coverage.

The results showed that compared with Naming, the speech act of Requesting elicits additional activation in the fronto-parietal areas of the brain compatible with the engagement of the mirror neuron and theory of mind systems.

Our ethnographic study explores im/politeness practices carried out in the Štrbské Pleso holiday resort, Slovakia's prime site of mountain tourism, using a corpus of its public regulatory signage in which directive speech acts of requesting and prohibiting are performed.

This paper reports the findings of a study designed to investigate the notion of indirectness in the speech act of requests among native speakers of Iranian Turkish.

The Federal Housing Act (of 1963) requested non-profit organizations to get involved with providing housing for low-income families, individuals and senior citizens.

These results also imply that the initial comprehension of the speech acts of Requests might take place mainly based on the action sequence structure of the speech act, possibly by rapid simulation of the subsequent actions within the pragmatic action tree.

Through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Congress requested that the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommend national priorities for research questions to be addressed by Comparative Effectiveness Research.

The documents were in response to a Freedom of Information Act (Foia) request made by Vice News.

For example, consider the speech acts of Naming and Requesting.