of Grice’s Cooperative Principle and maxims (1975), the purpose of this research was to examine the functions of maxim flouting done by the relevant parties while discussing their business transactions. The data came from email correspondence among

The main purposes of this study of "Communicative Strategies and Functions of Verbal Irony in Thai Political Debates" are (1) to determine the devices and communicative strategies of irony in Thai political debates; (2) to determine the functions... of irony in Thai political debates; and (3) to survey and compare the opinions of politicians and ordinary people on the communicative strategies and functions of The data was collected from two sources..one being excerpts from three days of a no-confidence

There are 2 main aims in this study. The first aim is to collect non-referential discourse markers in casual conversations in Nakhon Si Thammarat Thai. The second aim is to study their discourse functions within the framework proposed by Peansiri... into 4 groups according to their primary functions. 1. Three discourse markers primarily function in the interaction management process. 2. Eight discourse markers primarily function in the goal management process. 3. Five discourse markers primarily

The objective of this research is to study discourse markers in Chaiyaphum Thai, and to study their functions in discourse. The data used consists of 7 casual conversations in Chaiyaphum Thai, totalling 60 minutes of talk. Based on Schiffrin...'s definition (1987), 81 discourse markers are identified. This can be classified into five groups according to their primary function in one of the five components of discourse. 1. There are 22 discourse markers which function in the ideational structure

This research article aims to study the discourse functions of jibun, a Japanese pronoun, especially its position as sentential subjects, using the frameworks of cohesion given by Halliday and Hasan (1976) and by Bamroongraks (2558[2015]). The data... in the relative clause construction. The distinction between those constructions is another way of describing the discourse functions of jibun, showing some marked variations across the two constructions. The two main aspects of the discourse function of jibun

Other-repetition, an important interactional device, occurs in every discourse of all languages with various functions. Yet, their forms and functions in different languages might be different. This study aims at examining forms, parts of speech..., turns, and functions of other-repetitions in Thai conversations and comparing other-repetitions in two types of discourse -- task-based conversations and daily conversations. The data elicited are from Thai Mister O Corpus task-based conversations

Aims at collecting discourse markers in casual conversations and at studying their functions in discourse, using the framework presented by Deborah Schiffrin (1987). The data used consist of 11 casual conversations, totalling 60 minutes and 20... seconds. The analysis reveals 61 discourse markers, each with one or many variant. These markers can be classified into 5 groups according to their primary function on the five different planes in discourse; namely, the ideational structure, the exchange

The Economist explains, a total of 47 paragraphs, comprise the data. Combining Halliday’s thematic approach (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2014) with Thompson’s approach (Thompson, 2014), the analysis reveals six different functions that the paragraphs of the articles... perform. Each function expresses specific thematic patterns. The patterns capture the core information that is crucial to the understanding of the paragraphs’ contents. Thus, the patterns can help promote reading comprehension.

This study draws on a framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) which was developed by Michael Halliday (1985,1994). The Tai Dam ritual procedural texts were analyzed within a scope of textual metafunction. The objectives of this study