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LEARNING PACKET

Grade Level Grade 11 SY / Semester 2022-2023

Subject Category Core Subject Code EN111
Subject Title Oral Communication in Context

Week 6:
Content Standard:
The learner recognizes that communicative
competence requires understanding of
speech context, speech style, speech act
and communicative strategy.
Performance Standard:
The learner demonstrates effective use of
communicative strategy in a variety of speech
situation

Topic Title: Resources:

Types of Speech Acts Oral Communication in Context book.

What is Speech Act – is un utterance that a speaker makes to achieve an intended effect. Some of
the functions which are carried out using speech acts are offering an apology, greeting, request,
complaint, invitation, compliment or refusal. A speech act might contain just one word or several
words or sentences. The following are examples of speech acts that show appreciation.
EXAMPLES:
 “Thanks”
 “Thank you for always being there for me. I really appreciate it.”

Three Types of Speech Act

According to J.L Austin (1962), a philosopher of language and the developer of the speech act
theory, there are three types of act in every utterance, given the right circumstances or context.
These are:

1. Locutionary Act is an actual act of uttering.

 “Please Do the Dishes”

2. Illocutionary Act is the social function of what is said.

 By uttering the locution “Please do the dishes”, the speaker requests the addressee wash
the dishes.

3. Perlocutionary Act is the resulting act of what is said. This effect is based on the particular
context in which the speech act was mentioned.
 “Please do the dishes,” would lead to the addressee washing the dishes.

Searle’s Classification of Speech Acts

As a response to Austin’s Speech act theory, John Searle (1976), a professor from the university
of California, Berkeley, classified illocutionary acts into five distinct categories.

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ACTIVITY:
Give 2 examples in each Classification of Speech Act.

1. Assertive
2. Directive
3. Commisive
4. Expressive
5. Declaration

Prepared by:
Lenard Jean M. Kamantigue
Subject Teacher