STRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS OF COMMISSIVES BY US PRESIDENTS
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STRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS OF COMMISSIVES BY US PRESIDENTS
ISTATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIPI declare (hat this research paper is mine and original. No other person’s work has been used without acknowledgement in the t STRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS OF COMMISSIVES BY US PRESIDENTS thesis.Binh Dinh, 2019SignatureXaiyavongkham VongbouasyliACKNOWLEDGEMENTSI would like to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Quang Ngoan for his support and guidance in my completion of the thesis.I am also thankful to all the lecturers al Quy Nhon University for t STRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS OF COMMISSIVES BY US PRESIDENTS heir profound knowledge and endless support during my study at Quy Nhon University.I would also like to thank my classmales who are always willing loSTRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS OF COMMISSIVES BY US PRESIDENTS
help me and give their best suggestions and encouragement to me during my process of conducting the study.Finally, I owe the completion of this paper ISTATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIPI declare (hat this research paper is mine and original. No other person’s work has been used without acknowledgement in the t STRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS OF COMMISSIVES BY US PRESIDENTS missives by Bill Clinton, Banack Obama, and Donald Trump as the US presidents in their terms, rhe statistic, analytic, synthetic, descriptive, and comparative methods are used to examine 331 commissives, collected from 48 speeches made by the three presidents in their terms, rhe results show that fo STRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS OF COMMISSIVES BY US PRESIDENTS rms of commissives are realized in structures with performative verbs, structures with commissive words, and structures without commissive words, amonSTRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS OF COMMISSIVES BY US PRESIDENTS
g which the last one is the most commonly used. As tar as functions are concerned, commissives arc used by the three presidents to express offer/promiISTATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIPI declare (hat this research paper is mine and original. No other person’s work has been used without acknowledgement in the t STRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS OF COMMISSIVES BY US PRESIDENTS s and objectives of the study with its research questions, scope and significance, rhe definitions of terms and structures of the thesis arc also presented.1.1.RATIONALEWhen political leaders take a new position, they usually make commitments to different things to make people happy or satisfied. It STRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS OF COMMISSIVES BY US PRESIDENTS is for this reason that commissive speech acts arc commonly made by political leaders. Commissive speech acts or commissives arc kinds of speech actsSTRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS OF COMMISSIVES BY US PRESIDENTS
that speakers use to commit themselves to doing something with words. Let's analyze the commissives in (1.1), (1.2), and (1.3).(1.1)Let US guarantee ISTATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIPI declare (hat this research paper is mine and original. No other person’s work has been used without acknowledgement in the t STRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS OF COMMISSIVES BY US PRESIDENTS ssive made by I •’ormer President Bill Clinton in his address on health care reform on September 22nd, 1993. Structural!}; this commissive is realized in a structure with the commissive word guarantee. functionally, it is for making a promise to the audience.(1.2)Going forward, / am committed to add STRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS OF COMMISSIVES BY US PRESIDENTS ressing these costs openly and honestly. Our new approach in Afghanistan is likely to cost US roughly S30 billion for the military this year, and I'llSTRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS OF COMMISSIVES BY US PRESIDENTS
work closely with Congress to address these costs as we work to bring down our deficit. (December 1,22009: Speech on Strategy in Afghanistan and PakiISTATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIPI declare (hat this research paper is mine and original. No other person’s work has been used without acknowledgement in the t STRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS OF COMMISSIVES BY US PRESIDENTS 1st, 2009 is realized, in the first part, in a structure with the commissive word committed, and in the second part in a structure without commissive words: “/'7/ work”. Both of them are, however, promises functionally.(1.3)And we're pouring a lot of money and a lot of talent into this horrible pro STRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS OF COMMISSIVES BY US PRESIDENTS blem. And we pledge to honor the memory of those you lost with action and determination and resolve. We 7/ get it. We Wỉ7/ not rest until the end. (MaSTRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS OF COMMISSIVES BY US PRESIDENTS
rch 19, 2018: Remarks on Combating the Opioid Crisis)Utterance (1.3) is a commissive made by President Donald Trump in his remarks on combating the opISTATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIPI declare (hat this research paper is mine and original. No other person’s work has been used without acknowledgement in the t STRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS OF COMMISSIVES BY US PRESIDENTS st” for the promises he intends to make.Thus, it is especially interesting to study commissives as a speech act type. Surprising, no research of commissives has been conducted in Vietnam although there have been studies in speech act types in textbooks (Nguyen Thị Ngọc Dung, 2014; Nguyên Till Minh T STRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS OF COMMISSIVES BY US PRESIDENTS âm, 2014), indirect speech acts (Đoàn Thị Hương Hiền, 2015), expressives (Vò Trọng Nhơn, 2016), representatives (Nguyễn Xuân Vĩnh, 2013) and directiveSTRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS OF COMMISSIVES BY US PRESIDENTS
s (Nguyền Thị Thanh Bình, 2011).Thus, there has been no study on commissives in Vietnam with a focus on structures and functions, especially by US preISTATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIPI declare (hat this research paper is mine and original. No other person’s work has been used without acknowledgement in the t STRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS OF COMMISSIVES BY US PRESIDENTS reasons for my choice of the research topic “Structure and Functions of Commissives hy US Presidents” for my MA thesis.31.2.AIM AND OBJECTIVESISTATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIPI declare (hat this research paper is mine and original. No other person’s work has been used without acknowledgement in the tGọi ngay
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