Thesis: Discourse Completion Tasks and Speech Corpora are both sources that are used in analyzing pragmatism. However, the corpora method is more accurate when coming up with a theory on how we perceive various texts.
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Topic Sentence: DCTs are efficient sources of data when testin...
Thesis: Discourse Completion Tasks and Speech Corpora are both sources that are used in
analyzing pragmatism. However, the corpora method is more accurate when coming up with a
theory on how we perceive various texts.
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Topic Sentence: DCTs are efficient sources of data when testing a particular set of conditions in
an environment. The DCT takes place in an already set environment with the conditions tested.
Therefore, one is able to get the specific results they are looking for. This can lead to one making
an accurate conclusion on the hypothesis that they were testing.
Evidence: “These tasks usually referred to as Discourse Completion Tasks or Discourse
Completion Tests (DCTs) are widely and successfully used in the study of
Speech acts (see Chapter 5) and speech events (e.g., asking the time). They are particularly
favored as a methodology in the study of second language pragmatic competence. They are
essentially a type of language questionnaire whereby you elicit what a speaker thinks they would
say in a situation. In addition to their use in the study of speech acts and events, they are used in
dialect studies where they can focus on very specific structures” (Boxer & Cohen 2004).
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Topic Sentence: Speech Corpora and Discourses get utilized in the analysis of foreign
languages. However, DCTs are not convenient sources of data when assessing these languages.
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