Reflections on Indirect Speech Act Theory and Its Application in Teaching English Listening Comprehension

DOI

10.2991/sschd-16.2016.36How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Reflections, Indirect speech act, Listening comprehension.

Abstract

Searle's indirect speech act theory has been proved to be one of the most influential theories in pragmatics, and it also has a lot of useful implications in today's EFL teaching. In order to help students develop their linguistic competence, one good way is to teach indirect speech acts in the process of language skills training. This paper will first make a comprehensive review of indirect speech act theory, and then apply it into teaching English listening comprehension.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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