Sentence examples for directive speech from inspiring English sources
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.
Di Giulio claims that hinneh signals the performance of a declarative speech act, while ʿattâ signals the performance of a directive speech act, which correspond respectively to declarative and volitive or interrogative mood in the system established above.
Communication tended to be one-sided and clinician-centered, with clinicians doing most of the talking, and controlling the conversation by using closed questions and directive speech.
The sources collected in the database include Chinese Communist Party (CCP) documents, directives, speeches and works by Mao Zedong and other CCP officials of the period, official newspaper editorials, and selected Red-Guard documents.
The president added that directive to his speech less than a day before delivery, officials said.
The performative verbs used in directive and expressive speech acts belong to the semantic domain of communication verbs.
The analysis suggests that the choice of directive and expressive speech act verbs and their co-occurrence with particular addressees are motivated by the socio-pragmatic situation.
The two-speech directive will not be the only break with tradition this year.
Both the directive and Mladic's speech were known to western governments.
Human speech is also directive, and the directivity increases at higher frequencies [37].
Now the pattern is for the ayatollah to give a directive, usually in a public speech, and then leave it to conservatives in the judiciary to arrest the offending reformer.
