Types Of speech Act Flashcards
Is an utterance that a speaker makes to achieve an intended effect
Speech Act
Is a speech act when the speaker is able to do something or have someone do something through words
Sentence or a phrase
It is the actual act of uttering
Locutionary Act
It is the social function of what is said.
Illocutionary
It is the resulting act of what is said
Perlocutionary Act
This act reveals the effect that the speaker exercises over the hearer
Perlocutionary Act
It is the response of a person to speech act
Perlocutionary Act
Introduced the concept of performative utterance
Austin
statements which enable the speaker to perform something just by stating it
Performatives
Verbs that executes the speech act that they intend to effect are called
Performatives
A professor from the university of California, classified illocutionary acts into 5 categories
John Searle
A type of illocutionary act in which the speaker expresses belief about the truth of proposition
Assertive
A type of illocutionary act in which the speaker tries to make the addresses perform an action
Directive
A type of illocutionary act which commits to doing something in the future.
Commissive
a type of illocutionary act in which the speaker expresses his/her or emotional reactions
Expressive