ORAL

COMMUNICATION
IN CONTEXT

SPEECH ACTS

Mrs. Noreen M. Morales (Teacher)

OPENING PRAYER
 This is designed to
present a person
Recall… or an award.

Introduction
 This type of speech has
This type of the main intent of
speech aims to holding the crowd’s
attention through witty
enlighten the audience
narratives that express a
about the topic. point.

Informative Entertainment
 These are usually
This speech aims to delivered in formal
influence occasions. They are
the audience’s perception prepared and usually
or behavior
read word-for-word.
towards a certain idea.

Persuasive Manuscript
Learning Goals:
Respond
01 Define speech
acts. appropriately
and
Distinguish types
03 effectively
02 of speech acts, to a speech
act.
Today’s SPEECH ACTS
Lesson:
H at e
“I now declare Martial Law!”
 ● Actions that
SPEECH ACTS occur because of
language
-refer to the ● Verbal actions
that accomplish
utterances that a something
speaker makes to ● May contain one
achieve an word or several
intended effect. words or
sentences
 Thank you
Tha nk s! for always
being there
for me.
JL AUSTIN
-proponent of
the Speech Act
Theory (1962)
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PERLOCUTIONARY
 ● An act of making a

01 meaningful utterance.
● When we PRODUCE
an utterance, that is
LOCUTIONARY called a locutionary
act.
LOCUTION - the phrase ● Saying something with
or sentence that has a certain meaning in a
meaning (vocabulary) and traditional way
structure (grammar)
EXAMPLE:

Speaker:
“It is raining
outside.”
- It is the literal meaning of
the utterance.
 ● The speaker’s

02 INTENTION in
delivering an
utterance
● Social function of
what is said
ILLOCUTIONARY ● Includes stating,
promising,
apologizing,
threatening, ordering,
predicting, requesting
EXAMPLE: Speaker’s intention
“It is raining - The speaker wants the
hearer to use an umbrella
outside.” when he/she goes out.

- The speaker wants the

hearer NOT to go out
because it is still raining
outside.
 ● The resulting act of

03 what is said
● The effect or result of
the utterance on the
hearer, depending on
specific
PERLOCUTIONARY circumstances
● The response to an
illocutionary act
EXAMPLE: What is the
perlocutionary effect?
“It is raining
- The hearer may use an
outside.” umbrella when he/she
goes out.

- The hearer may stay

while waiting for the rain
to subside.
 10k
Jupiter is the biggest
utterance intent
20k
Earth is the place where
effect
planet of them all we currently live

30k
Mars is actually a very
40k
Venus is the second
cold place planet from the Sun
 This text Mercury is the closest planet to
the Sun and the smallest one in

seems to be the Solar System—it’s only a bit

larger than our Moon. The
planet’s name has nothing to do
important with the liquid metal
JOHN SEARLE
-placed
illocutionary acts
into five
categories (1975)
Five Categories of
ILLOCUTIONARY
Acts
 ● The speaker
01 expresses belief
about the truth
of a proposition
● Commits the
ASSERTIVE speaker to
something being
the case
 EXAMPLE:

● Asserting ● Concluding
● Stating ● Claiming
Language Functions ● Telling ● Describing
● Requiring ● Suggesting
 02 ● The speaker
tries to make
the receiver
perform an
DIRECTIVE action
 EXAMPLE:

● Ordering ● Requesting
● Commanding ● Defying
Language Functions ● Challenging ● Begging
 03 ● The speaker
commits to
doing something
in the future.
COMMISSIVE
 EXAMPLE:

● Planning ● Promising
Language Functions ● Vowing ● Threatening
● Betting
 04 ● Expresses how
the speaker
feels about the
situation.
EXPRESSIVE
 EXAMPLE:

● Apologizing ● Welcoming
Language Functions ● Thanking ● Deploring
 05 ● Change the
state of the
world in an
immediate way
DECLARATION
 EXAMPLE:

● Christening ● Blessing
● Bidding ● Firing
● Declaring war
● Passing a sentence
Language Functions ● Pronouncing a couple as
husband and wife
 ANy
questions?
In summary…

Locutionary Perlocutionary
-what we SAY -EFFECT of
the intended
Illocutionary action
-INTENTION
of producing
meaning
 Using and
understanding
Let’s remember speech acts develop
our communicative
competence.
Thank You!
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