Expressive Speech Actsin the BBC World Service Video Entitled “Could AI Chatbots Replace Human Therapists?
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As a huge media entertainment, youtube serves not only as an entertainment site but also as a powerful medium for education, information sharing, and social awareness. This research investigates the use Expressive speech actsin the BBC World Service video entitled “Could AI chatbots replace human therapists”. The research focuses on the comments on BBC Youtube content entitled “Could AI chatbots replace human therapists?”. This research examines expressive speech acts in the comment section of that video. It aims to identify the types of expressive acts used, and determine each of type is most employed by the commenter. The study applies Searle and Vanderveken’s (1985) classification, which encompasses acts like expressing gratitude, offering apologies, giving congratulations, showing praise, expressing sorrow, boasting, assigning blame, and greeting. It is along with Leech’s (2014) framework of speech act functions, namely competitive, convivial, collaborative, and conflictive. Descriptive qualitative method is employed by the researcher for this research. The data were collected using a note-taking technique, focusing on 20 comments which found on the that video. The finding reveals that there are expressive act found in these data. These act mostly collaborative, convivial and conflictive functions. Furthermore, there are five types of expressive speech act found such as, thanking, praising, sorrowing, blaming, and boasting.
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DOI: 10.4324/9781315187853
