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entry 3: Actos de habla: asertivos y performativos - Colleen Glenney Boggs

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A British linguist, J.L., Austin defined that the speech is devided into two definitions : CONSTATIVE AND PERFORMATIVE. The first one describes sentences that could be true or false, and the other one denotes ACTIONS; "It acts upon the world". We may say that words bring about actions.This is called SPEECH ACTS. Some examples of speech acts are ordering, promising, apologising even marrying when the couple say "I do". Felicity conditions are the rules under which the performative can be acted. The performative should have AUTHORITY, should be UNDERSTOOD, CLEAR and ABLE TO BE EXCECUTED. SPEECH ACTS:
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I think the first video ( the lady buying a pair of shoes) is the most effective since it is very graphic and direct. We can clearly understand the message that it wants to convey; there is no other interpretation and there is anything hidden; everything is transparent and unambiguous. That lady is buying a pair of shoes in an innocent and ignarant way until the shoe lace leads her to the cruel business that it is masked behind. She could see by her own eyes the evil life that the worker was living: working under slavery conditions. The REFLECTION is: we, buy products, just to please our ego or needs at the expense of poor people. We, as citizens, should be aware of this and try to modify our habits.
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Entry 6 well written paragraph

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https://youtu.be/cCuExRE6N-4 There ara certain cultures, such as chinesse, in which the essays are longer than others such as the English culture. the main characteristcs are: to begin with, the   TOPIC SENTENCE :  clarified the subject                                        what we are going to talk about in the following paragraphs                                          opening sentence should be an interesting topic to catch the attention     NOT be detailed, breve, clear and presice . The topic sentence lead the reader to into the points that the writer is going to make , to clear up the idea.   After it , comes the BODY : this is the heart of the essay which  supports the topic with arguments . It gives more information and the o...
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