Sakurako Tsujimoto

The author has created a proposal of semantic formulas for analyzing discourse in which advice is offered, which has not been well studied so far among speech acts. When creating the formulas, the author refers to Morimoto's (2005) semantic formulas and Tsujimoto's (2008) original classification of free text responses within a survey. The semantic formulas created in this research consist of the following four major parts: I. Clarification of the situation that triggers the advice, II. Advice, III. Speech surrounding the advice, IV. Others. In total, 19 subcategories were established.

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