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Article Evaluation: Speech act

• The article overall is confusing and hard to follow. It jumps subjects and researchers without proper transitions.
• Although certain concepts are introduced, the author never goes in depth to explain.
• All the sources cited and quoted seemed to be a bit outdated since it all came before the 1990's.
• There is a closing quotation mark needed in one spot.
• Some of the quotes are just way too long, which I believe are either un-needed or should be re-worded.
• Sections of the article were too short and needed more information or just unnecessary because they didn't seem relevant.
• This articles is apart of the Wiki Projects for Linguistics and Psychology.
• The article is rated as a starting project which I agree with.
• The author seems to bias towards certain researchers more than others.
• I was sad to not see "coming out of the closet" being mentioned as an example for performative speech acts.
• The talk page has some disagreements regarding the researchers mention in the article.
• They also say on the talk page that the article is too "technical" and confusing.

Martin Joos

Martin Joos (1907–1978) was a linguist and German professor. He spent most of his career at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and also served at the University of Toronto and as a visiting scholar at the University of Alberta, the University of Belgrade, and the University of Edinburgh. During World War II, Joos was a cryptologist for the US Signal Security Agency. The War Department honored him with a Distinguished Service citation in recognition of his work developing communication systems. After the war he returned to the University of Wisconsin, eventually serving as the chairman of the Department of German.

Biography

Martin George Joos was born on May 11, 1907 into a farming family near Fountain City, Wisconsin. He was one out of ten children and it is noted that his filial relations while growing up were very close. He grew up speaking English and German which later influenced his decision to go into linguistics. Ironically though, he ended up graduating with a bachelor's in electrical engineering, but he applied this with linguistics while serving with Signal Security Agency of the United States of America doing crypt-analyses. When he went back for his masters, Joos decided to pursue linguistics and got a degree in German. This lead to him receiving a position in Canada at the University of Toronto and at University of Wisconsin. Somewhere during this time before WWII, he married Jennie Mae Austin on September 8, 1938, who he was married to for forty years, and they adopted a daughter named Shari. After his service in WWII, Joos went back to the University of Wisconsin and became a German professor and Chairman of the German Department. In the years following, he became a visiting professor at University of Alberta, University of Edinburgh, and University of Belgrade

The Five Clock

Among Joos's books on linguistics is The Five Clocks (1962), which introduced influential discussions of style, register, and style-shifting.

The five aspects of register are as follows:

• Frozen
  • unchanging utterances
  • remain the same with every utterance
  • Ex: written songs, poems, or ballads
• Formal
  • monologue
  • listener does not participate
  • often in formal contexts
• Consultative
  • dialogue
  • assumed no prior knowledge
  • both speaker and listener actively participate
  • semi-formal, consultative context
• Casual
  • dialogue
  • shared knowledge
  • speaker and listener actively participate
  • informal context
• Intimate
  • intonation and non-verbal communication
  • family and close friends
  • intimate context

Acoustic Phonetics

Acoustic Phonetics was written in times of exploration of phonetics. That is exactly what the book is about. Exploration of the unknown in phonetics, more specifically the acoustic aspect of phonetics. Martin Joos wrote the book to help the world come to a unified phonetic theory and to introduce acoustic information to phonetics.

Selected works

• 1951. Middle High German Courtly Reader (with F.R. Whitesell). Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
• 1957. Readings in Linguistics: The Development of Descriptive Linguistics in America since 1925 (editor). Washington: ACLS.
• 1962. The Five Clocks. Bloomington: Indiana University Research Center in Anthropology, Folklore, and Linguistics. Reprinted in 1967 by Harcourt, Brace & World. ISBN 978-0156313803
• 1964. The English Verb: Form and Meanings. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0299033101
• 1972. Semantic axiom number one. Language 48(2), 257-265.

Ashley: Early life and Career

The Martin Joos article does have a little bio on his life but I want to know more of his background and education. The following links have shown interesting facts and show how Martin came to the path of Linguistics. I also want to find more on the codebreaking work he did in WWII but that is proving to be difficult at the moment.

Sources

• Moro, A. C. (2016). I speak, therefore i am : seventeen thoughts about language. Retrieved from https://ebookcentral.proquest.com - pg 44-47 ch. 12
• Hill, A. (1979). Martin Joos. Language, 55(3), 665-669. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.uta.edu/stable/413322
• Fowler, M., Nollendorfs, C., Riegel, S., Seifert, L., & Street, J. (1978). Martin Joos (1907-1978). Monatshefte, 70(4), 415-416. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.uta.edu/stable/30156981
• Joos, M. (1948). Acoustic Phonetics. Language, 24(2), 5-136. doi:10.2307/522229. Retrieved from www.jstor.org/stable/522229
• Roger Bacon and Martin Joos: Generative linguistics# reading of the past Author: Margaret Thomas pg.15

Reuel: Linking to Register (sociolinguistics)

I think it is relevant to list what the five aspects of register are in the article (Frozen, Formal, Consultative, Casual, Intimate), as there is a link to registers but no information on them in the article itself. The source would be The Five Clocks, by Martin Joos. For the frozen style, we could also link to Charles F. Hockett, who according to a review from 1966, has literary concepts that share similarities with the frozen style of writing that Joos described (review of The Five Clocks by L. Zgusta, in 1966 in the Archív Orientální, vol. 34, pp. 675-676)(accessible through the UTA login library resources. Still searching for a way to access it outside of the UTA servers). -- RBauder (talk) 02:11, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Saphire: Acoustic Phonetics-Martin Joos

Acoustic Phonetics was written in times of exploration of phonetics. That is exactly what the book is about. Exploration of the unknown in phonetics, more specifically the acoustic aspect of phonetics. Martin Joos wrote the book to help the world come to a unified phonetic theory and to introduce acoustic information to phonetics. Saphireh97 (talk) 06:10, 6 March 2018 (UTC)