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The two-speech directive will not be the only break with tradition this year.
Human speech is also directive, and the directivity increases at higher frequencies [37].
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.
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 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.
Both the directive and Mladic's speech were known to western governments.
Yet only one example was given in his speech and that was the working time directive.
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.
Obama outlined many of the changes for the intelligence community in a presidential policy directive released simultaneously with the speech.
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