#CH21 SPEECH ACTS

Question 1

WHAT ACT ASSERTION?

Answer 1

ACT ASSERTION :
+CARRIED OUT SPEAKER UTTERS DECLARATIVE SENT
+TRUE / FALSE,
+UNDERTAKES CERTAIN
-RESPONSIBILITY,
-COMMITMENT, TO THE HEARER,
+ PARTICULAR STATE :
-AFFAIRS,
- SITUATION,
-EXISTS in WORLD.
EX: , ‘Simon is in the kitchen’,
-> PERSON named SIMON
->REFER THE KITCHEN.

Question 2

WHAT DESCRIPTIVE FALLACY?

Answer 2

DESCRIPTIVE FALLACY :
+VIEW SOLE PURPOSE MAKING
ASSERTIONS
-> DESCRIBE STATE of AFFFFAIRS.
EX DESCRIPTIVE FALLACY VIEW
, ‘SIMON IS IN THE KITCHEN’
-> PARTICULAR STATE of AFFFFAIRS,
.

Question 3

WHAT PERFORMATIVE UTTER?

Answer 3

PERFORMATIVE UTTERANCE
+ DESCRIBES ACT PERFORMS,

EX ‘I promise to repay you tomorrow’ IS PERFORMATIVE BECAUSE :
+DESCRIBES
+PROMISE.
‘John promised to repay me tomorrow’,
->NOT ITSELF A PROMISE.
-> NOT A PERFORMATIVE

Question 4

WHAT CONSTATIVE UTTER?

Answer 4

CONSTATIVE UTTER
+-> ASSERTION
+ UTTER DECLAR SENT
+ NOT PERFORMATIVE.
EX ‘I’m trying to get this box open with a screwdriver’ CONSTATIVE UTTER,
BECAUSE
-> ASSERTION PARTICULAR STATE of AFFAIRS,
+NOT PERFORMATIVE,
+ NOT DESCRIBE
& PERFORM SAME ACT

Question 5

WHAT PERFORMATIVE VERB?

Answer 5

PERFORMATIVE VERB
+ in SIMPLE POSITIVE
PRESENT TENSE SENT,
1ST SINGULAR SUBJECT,
-> UTTER PERFORMATIVE.
EX
Sentence PERFORMATIVE VERB
‘I sentence you to be
Hanged by the neck’ PERFORM UTTER.
Punish NOT PERFORM VERB
‘I punish you’
NOT PERFORM UTTER.