Lesson 6 Speech Acts

Question 1

Action performed by an utterance

Answer 1

Speech Acts

Question 2

Kinds of Utterances

Answer 2

Constative
Performance

Question 3

describe a situation or insinuate assertions.

Answer 3

Constative Utterances

Question 4

are words that incite action.

Answer 4

Performance Utterance

Question 5

Classifications of Speech Acts

Answer 5

1. Locution
2. Illocution
3. Perlocution

Question 6

is the act of producing meaningful utterance.

is what is said or the actual words being spoken.

Searle replaced the concept of _ with the propositional
act. This pertains to the act of “saying something” in the normal or
traditional sense.

Answer 6

Locutionary Act

Question 7

• asking or answering a question
• announcing a verdict or an intention
• giving information
• pronouncing words
• making an appeal
• giving criticism
• identifying or describing

Answer 7

Functions of Locutionary Act

Question 8

Types of Locution

Answer 8

Utterance act
Propositional act

Question 9

pertains to the word or string words said that may not
have a particular meaning.

Answer 9

Utterance act

Question 10

pertains to an utterance performed when referring
or predicating in an utterance. This does not have to be complete
sentence, nor does it have to intend anything.

Answer 10

Propositional act

Question 11

• It is the meaning one wishes to communicate or convey.
• It is the act that a speaker performs in saying the utterance.
• This pertains to “what is done in uttering the words.”

Answer 11

Illocution

Question 12

Categories of
Illocution

Answer 12

Expressives
Declaratives
Assertives
Directives
Commissives

Question 13

• express a speaker’s emotions and attitudes toward a particular
  situation.
• include apologizing, welcoming, thanking, and congratulating

Answer 13

Expressives

Question 14

• bring about a change in the situation upon being uttered
• include appointing, baptizing, declaring, firing, and nominating

Answer 14

Declaratives

Question 15

• convey information regarding something.
• include concluding, stating, describing, asserting, suggesting, and
  insisting

Answer 15

Assertives

Question 16

• cause the individual being addressed to do a particular action
• include commanding, daring, challenging, requesting, and asking
  someone to do something

Answer 16

Directives

Question 17

• commit the speaker to doing a particular action in the future
• include promising, vowing, planning, and offering

Answer 17

Commissives

Question 18

• It is the effects, intentional or unintentional, the utterance has on the
  behavior, thoughts, and feelings of the addressee.
• This is the result or effect produced by the utterance in the given
  context.

when, by saying something, a speaker
gets an addressee to do something.

Answer 18

Perlocutionary Act