Full Name: Robert Lloyd B.
Aban Date: September 23, 2016
Section: ICT-A Score:___________________
Subject: Oral Communication
Teacher: Sir Rydel R. Encabo
Types of Speech Acts
Locution/Locutionary Acts
“As belonging to a certain vocabulary…and as conforming to a certain grammar…with a certain
more or less definite and reference” – J.L Austin (How to do things with words)
Locutionary act is simply the speech act that has taken place the performance of utterance.
*A Locutionary act is an act in which the speaker says his/her point or the exact meaning on
what word or statement he/she say. Locutionary is divided in three parts: Phonic (Sounds/Voice),
Phatic (Expression/Emotion), Rhetic [Informative-Propositional act (J. Searle)]
In short, it is what is actually said by the speaker.
“Sigh” (Phonic) or “Yawn” (Phonic)
“I don’t want to go in the concert”- Is an Example of a Locutionary Act
“Xander, would you please come to my room?”
“That French Croissant is tasty”
“Don’t go into that water!”
Legend: My Understanding=*
http://pirsigaffliction.blogspot.com/2009/12/austin-gets-rhemed.html
http://www.grin.com/en/e-book/214710/locution-illocution-and-perlocution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKXOjh98R90
Illocution/Illocutionary Acts
Illocutionary act is the real action which is performed by the utterance. It is the semantic
“illocutionary force” of the utterance, thus the real, intended meaning.
*An Illocutionary act is an act in which the speaker convey on what he/she means. The speaker
also says an incomplete thought but he/she means something that she wants. “I’m feeling tired”-
is an incomplete thought but he/she meant is he/she wants to go home and go to bed.
Illocutionary act can also be said on various ways such as stating (Assertive-Commit),
commanding (Directives-take action), promising (Commissive-take future action), firing
(declaration-change the social identity) and apologizing (Expressive-Emotions). In Short, it is the
speaker’s intention behind of what the speaker said.
“It’s too hard”, he complains (Illocutionary Act) “Do you need help”, she offers. “Yes! This is what
wer---...”, he replied and she suddenly cuts him and said “I didn’t say that I will to help you.” And
walks out. *Savage*
“Watch out! there’s a debris.”
“I promise you, I’ll go to your birthday party”
http://grammar.ucsd.edu/courses/lign105/illoc.html
http://www.slideshare.net/EnyChan/pragmatic-and-speech-actppt-10681891
http://www.slideshare.net/Yirmanny/speech-acts-4558936
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_act
Perlocution/Perlocutionary Act
"Saying something will often, or even normally, produce certain consequential effects upon the
feelings, thoughts, or actions of the audience, or of the speaker, or of other persons: and it may
be done with the design, intention, or purpose of producing them." –J.L Austin (1962) how to do
things with words
Perlocutionary Act is the actual effect, an action or state of mind brought about by, or as a
consequence of, saying something.
*Perlocutionary Act is an act in which the speaker says something that has an impact on
someone in which sometimes the receiver/s will do something or will react on it depending on the
scenario.
“Aye, Aye Captain”
“I’m having a nausea” the daughter said. Her mom act quickly and gets a paper bag and said,
“Here throw up in here”
“I Think I’m having a fever.” His son gets him a medicine without his dad’s command.
“The Police are coming!” The inmates suddenly hide their guns and illegal drugs.
In Short, it is what the receiver does in response to the speaker’s utterance/remark.
Kempson offers this summary of the three interrelated speech acts originally presented by John L.
Austin in How to Do Things With Words (1962): "a speaker utters sentences with a particular
meaning (locutionary act), and with a particular force (illocutionary act), in order to achieve a
certain effect on the hearer (perlocutionary act)."
http://grammar.about.com/od/pq/g/perlocutionary.htm
http://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Perlocutionary%20act
http://www.slideshare.net/EnyChan/pragmatic-and-speech-actppt-10681891
