Discourse control acts, as Thomas explains, are three separate but related acts: discoursal indicators, metadiscoursal comments and interactional controllers (Thomas, 1990: 136).
The relation of part and speech purpose in dialogue as well as how to realize the speech purpose are important content of the pragmatics. The variety of comprehending speech purpose emerges because of the variety of part, which affect realizing speech purpose. The means of realizing it include direct means and indirect means. It is a two way selective relationship between the means and the part.
The monster,being ugly and against romantic aesthetics,is seen by his master as the "other" in Romanticism and therefore encounters exclusion and abhorrence.In fact,the author Mary Shelley suggests that the monster is essentially consistent with Romanticism instead of being inconsistent,and therefore exposed Frankenstein's misconduct of creating an "other" to achieve the goal of self-fashioning.The great discrepancy here offers Shelley a good way to criticize romantic aesthetics and Romanticism in terms of ...
This article discusses the shortcomings of the traditional standard to evaluate figures of speech, namely, effect conformity. On the basis of analyzing people's knowledge about figures of speech and adapting the original standard, the author puts forward a proposal of discourse purpose and investigates it as an upper category opposed to language context. The author believes that purpose conformity is the basic requirement of figures of speech and that all rhetoric devices revolve round the conformity. It is...