Directive Speech Acts of Asian Characters in the Movie "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings": Pragmatic Structures and Directive Strategies

Autor/inn/en	Jarudecharat, Jeerapan; Worathumrong, Sakulrat
Titel	Directive Speech Acts of Asian Characters in the Movie "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings": Pragmatic Structures and Directive Strategies
Quelle	In: LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 16 (2023) 2, S.469-481 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2630-0672
Schlagwörter	Speech Acts; Pragmatics; Films; Asians; Discourse Analysis; Preferences; Scripts; Taxonomy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprechakt; Pragmalinguistik; Film; Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Diskursanalyse; Skript; Taxonomie
Abstract	Superhero films have become a popular cinematic genre that has attracted the attention of scholars, many of whom focus on the films' dialogues. Through a pragmatic approach, this small-scale study investigates how directive speech acts are represented by the three Asian characters in the superhero movie "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings." Based on previous research, the directive speech acts in the film were extracted and analyzed, and a directive classification taxonomy was created to categorize pragmatic structures and strategies of directive speech acts. Of 342 directive utterances, the characters tend to favor both [H] and (S) oriented structures with more preference toward Single[H] and (S)+[H] structures. Of the 5 directive strategies, "Nonsentential," "Direct," and "NonConventionally Indirect/Hint" are the preferred strategies over the "Conventionally Direct" and "Hybrid ones." Such preference could be mapped along the directness continuum from the most direct force strategy, Direct directive strategy, to the least direct force strategy, "Non-Conventionally Indirect/Hint." The findings may contribute to further exploration of pragmatic features, especially the linguistic constructions of the "Nonsentential" directive strategy and its function in films, and movie script writing. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Language Institute of Thammasat University. The Prachan Campus, 2 Prachan Road, Bangkok 10200 Thailand. e-mail: learnjournal@gmail.com; Web site: https://www.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/learn
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Update	2024/1/01