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.
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.
In contrast, comprehension of Requests may require processing the information about a complex action sequence structure they are embedded in, as well as knowledge of the mechanistic performance of the typical move following a Request (e.g. the act of handing the requested object over to the Partner).
The central idea behind the act of "the prayer" -- the requesting of a certain outcome from a Higher Power with the capacity, if not the will, to facilitate it -- is worthy of inclusion in this analysis.
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.
Furthermore, since the hearer recognizes that questioning a precondition of a potential act is one indirect way of requesting the act, then (unless the context provides evidence to the contrary) the hearer will make the inference that the speaker wants the hearer to perform the information-conveying speech act.
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.
As part of a planned reevaluation and updating of the Act, the U.K. Department of Health requested the report from the Parliament committee, who would eventually decide on any changes to the law.
