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SPEECH ACTS
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The following utterances all have the same propositional act despite their different illocutionary acts, utterance acts, and perlocutionary acts:
You go home.
Do you go home?
Go home!
How I wish you’d go home!
PROPOSITIONAL ACT
UTTERANCE ACT
An utterance act is a speech act that consists of the verbal employment of units of expression such as words and sentences.
A propositional act is a speech act that a speaker performs when referring or predicating in an utterance.
EXAMPLES OF PERLOCUTIONARY ACT
- Persuading
- Convincing
- Scaring
- Insulting
- Getting the addressee to do something
PERLOCUTIONARY ACT
A perlocutionary act is a speech act that produces an effect, intended or not, achieved in an addressee by a speaker’s utterance.
KINDS OF ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS
SPEECH ACTS
A speech act is an utterance that serves a function in communication. We perform speech acts when we offer an apology, greeting, request, complaint, invitation, compliment, or refusal.
- Command
- Complex illocutionary act
- Defective illocutionary act
- Direct illocution
- Elementary illocutionary act
- Exclamation
- Indirect illocution
- Nondefective illocutionary act
- Question
- Statement
KINDS OF SPEECH ACTS
- Illocutionary act
- Perlocutionary act
- Propositional act
- Utterance act
ILLOCUTIONARY ACT
An illocutionary act is a complete speech act, made in a typical utterance, that consists of:
*the delivery of the propositional content of the utterance (including references and a predicate), and
*a particular illocutionary force, whereby the speaker