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TYPES OF SPEECH ACT:
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SPEECH ACT
TYPES OF SPEECH ACT
ILLOCUTIONARY ACT
AUSTIN in Yule decribed the kinds of speech, LOCUTIONARY Act, ILLOCUTIONARY Act, and PRELOCUTIONARY Act.
Austin distinguishes illocutionary acts into five categories:
- Declaritves
- Representatives
- Expressives
- Directives
- Commisives.
REPRESENTATIVES are acts that state what the speaker believes to be case or not.
ACTS:
- arguing
- boasting
- claiming
- complaining
- informing
- critizing
- describing
DIRECTIVES are those kind of speech acts that the speaker use to get someone else to do something.
ACTS:
- advising
- asking
- begging
- daring
- forbidding
- insisting
- recommending
- permitting
EXAMPLE: informing
"I met your parent yesterday"
EXAMPLE: forbidding
"Don't go to the party"
ILLOCUTIONARY ACT
DECLATARIVES are acts that change the world via utterance.
ACTS:
- approving
- betting
- blessing
- cursing
- declaring
- dismissing
- resigning
COMMISSIVES are acts that the speakers use to commit themselves to some futuer action.
ACTS:
- committing
- guaranteeing
- offering
- promising
- refusing
- threatening
- volunteering
EXAMPLE: resigning
"I quit from this job"
- According to Austin, it is "the action that is performed by saying the sentence".
- is an act of doing something
- it is uttered by the speaker that is not only say or state something but also used to ask someone to do something.
EXAMPLE: promising
"I promise to love you all my life"
EXPRESSIVES are acts that state what the speaker feel.
ACTS:
- apologizing
- complimenting
- praising
- congratulating
- thanking
- regretting
- condoling
- deploring
Example:
EXAMPLE: praising
"I like your house very much"
"Good Morning"
It is the illocutionary Act of Greeting
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