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  2. British Parliamentary Style - Wikipedia

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    The first speaker from each bench is known as the PM/LO.They are responsible for defining the key terminologies, explaining the background or status quo and establishing the characterisation of the motion under which the debate will take place, along with forwarding arguments and their importance for their own teams (Opening Government or Opening Opposition).

  3. Speech act - Wikipedia

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    In political science, the Copenhagen School adopts speech act as a form of felicitous speech act (or simply 'facilitating conditions'), whereby the speaker, often politicians or players, act in accordance to the truth but in preparation for the audience to take action in the directions of the player that are driven or incited by the act.

  4. Ideal speech situation - Wikipedia

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    An ideal speech situation was a term introduced in the early philosophy of Jürgen Habermas. It argues that an ideal speech situation is found when communication between individuals is governed by basic, implied rules. In an ideal speech situation, participants would be able to evaluate each other’s assertions solely on the basis of reason ...

  5. Conversational scoreboard - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics and philosophy of language, the conversational scoreboard is a tuple which represents the discourse context at a given point in a conversation.The scoreboard is updated by each speech act performed by one of the interlocutors.

  6. Metalocutionary act - Wikipedia

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    The term metalocutionary act originated as metalocution (Gibbon 1976, 1983) in functional descriptions of intonation in English and German, by analogy with locution (locutionary act), illocution (illocutionary act) and perlocution (perlocutionary act) in speech act theory. The term metalocutionary act has developed a more general meaning and ...

  7. Dialog act - Wikipedia

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    Types of dialog acts include a question, a statement, or a request for action. [2] Dialog acts are a type of speech act. Dialog act recognition, also known as spoken utterance classification, is an important part of spoken language understanding. AI inference models or statistical models are used to recognize and classify dialog acts. [2]

  8. Locutionary act - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics and the philosophy of language, a locutionary act is the performance of an utterance, and is one of the types of force, in addition to illocutionary act and perlocutionary act, typically cited in Speech Act Theory. [1] Speech Act Theory is a subfield of pragmatics that explores how words and sentences are not only used to present ...

  9. Ethnography of communication - Wikipedia

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    A - act sequence: what speech acts make up the speech event, and what order they are performed in K - key : the tone or manner of performance (serious or joking, sincere or ironic, etc.) I - instrumentalities : what channel or medium of communication is used (e.g. speaking, signing, writing, drumming, whistling), and what language/variety is ...