Strategic Speech Acts in Price Negotiation

Jerapa Satavetin ()
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Jerapa Satavetin: Silpakorn University

No 6609506, Proceedings of Arts & Humanities Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences

Abstract: This research aimed to examine speech act strategies used in a price negotiation. The data were collected by observing and voice recording from 20 conversations between sellers and buyers in markets in Bangkok, Thailand. Searle?s theory of speech acts was used as a tool to identify five illocutionary acts. Speech acts found in this study were representative, directive, commissive, expressive and declaration. The most frequent-used speech act was representative which meant sellers often used this type of speech act to inform the cost and price of products and the strengths of products. In addition, the perlocutionary act was also found in this study. In the end of conversation, the buyers decided to purchase the product with negotiated price. The sellers agreed to sell at a bargain price.

Keywords: Speech Acts; Negotiation; Illocutionary acts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 11 pages
Date: 2018-07
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Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 4th Arts & Humanities Conference, Stockholm, Jul 2018, pages 87-97

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