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5.3. Limitations and Suggestions
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perform direct fact-oriented speech more. That is, the former cannot blatantly attack the government, while the latter have to support the government discreetly. Such result reveals that intentions, ‗ideology‘ in specific, are mostly tactfully wrapped in the verbal expressions. Under the premise that inferred meanings outweigh literal meanings, researchers should pay more attention on the pragmatic use of speech.
5.3. Limitations and Suggestions
This thesis attempts to examine the ideological difference of political talk shows from their uses of illocutionary acts, and tries to retrieve the ideological influences in the pragmatic strategies (directness and indirectness), speech act categories, and illocutionary purposes performed in the data. However, some limitations exist in this study. Possible solutions to these limitations could become directions for the related studies in the future.
First, the categorization of illocutionary purposes in this study is exhaustive but not completed. Although the current categorization is already a long list, certain types of illocutionary acts can be further categorized. For example, suggestion can be classified into advice and mild condemnation if possible. With a more detailed classification of the illocutionary, the ideological differences between political shows may become clearer.
Second, to simplify the multifarious categories of the speech acts in this study, the categorization system should be readjusted. For instance, the analysis of text structure is an option to start with. Specifically, it is observed in the data that certain speech acts appear in sequence. For example, condemnations are often conducted after piles of informing, and defenses would not appear without several clauses of clarification following behind. It is suggested that, behind the detailed categories of speech acts, there is a higher hierarchy in the categorization system, such as
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comparison, contrast, and irony. With a higher level categorization, researchers may locate speakers‘ intentions even more precisely.
Third, the social factor of the study is restricted. Specifically, the political ideological factor applied in this thesis covers only the most representative sides—the blue-and-green opposition in Taiwan. In fact, based on the status quo in Taiwan, there are several different camps of ‗greens‘ and ‗blues‘ in the existing political ideologies.
Therefore, an expanded social factor—a widened coverage of the political spectrum—is needed in the future studies. It may enable the researchers to observe a more delicate correspondence between the political ideologies and the illocutionary acts in the genre of political talk shows.
Fourth, due to the limited time and the insufficient episodes of the corpus, the linguistic correspondences to the illocutionary acts are not analyzed in the current study. Future studies amending this deficiency may provide both researchers and the general public a better understanding to speech acts performed in political talk shows or other mass media.
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