Mr. Jensen R.

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 conveys
MEANING and
speaker’s
make listeners
utterances
action of saying DO SPECIFIC
THINGS
 a performative UTTERANCE, a
speaker is simultaneously DOING
SOMETHING.
 I am hungry.

expresses requests for

something to
hunger eat
LOCUTIONARY SPEECH ACT utterance
ILLOCUTIONARY SPEECH ACT intention
PERLOCUTIONARY SPEECH ACT response
 The utterances or the message
itself, either verbal or non-verbal
way.
it is the idea that makes opinions
and makes people think critically
 What is required for the utterance
to be a LOCUTIONARY ACT is that is
has sense, and has the same
meaning to both the speaker and
listener.
Please do the dishes.
the act of saying something with a
specific INTENTION
it is the main thought of the words
or the real meaning behind the
message of the sender that is not
usually expressed
 promise apology

order/request expression
Please do the dishes.

request
speaker says has an EFFECT on the
listener
it is the response coming from the
receiver after locution has been
delivered.
 Please do the dishes.

request

The addressee will wash the dishes.

 SCENARIO:
You’re going to court someone
 SCENARIO:
You’re going to court someone

LOCUTION: ILLOCUTION:
PERLOCUTION:
Hey, Please accept
Oh thanks, I
chocolates for my treat for Sorry, I have
really love it.
you. you. diabetes.
 GIVE THREE SCENARIOS AND
IDENTIFY THE TYPES OF SPEECH ACT
IN THE STORY.
INDIRECT SPEECH
 utterance is seen as a direct
speech act when there is a direct
relationship between the structure
and the communicative function of
the utterance
 You wear a seat belt.

Do you wear a seat belt?

Wear a seat belt!

 NOTE CASSIE

Direct speech acts therefore

EXPLICITLY illustrate the intended
meaning the speaker has behind
making that utterance.
Searle performed by means of
1995 another
 occur when there is no direct
connection between the form of
the utterance and the intended
meaning.
 Could you pass the rice?

You’re standing in front of the TV.

EXAMPLE Cassie:
Could you pass the rice?
INFERRED INDIRECT
Do you have the Please pass the
ability to hand
over the rice? rice.
So while the utterance LITERALLY ASKS the
addressee if he/she has the ability to hand a
plate of rice, it actually INDIRECTLY
REQUESTS the addressee to pass the rice to
the speaker.
CONCLUSIONS Cassie?
 assertives directives
declaration
commissives expressives
speaker expresses belief about the
truth of a proposition.
 putting
suggesting concluding
forward

swearing boasting describing

No one makes better pancakes than I do.

SWEARING
I am a great singer.

DESCRIBING
Cassie was a programmer.

DESCRIBING
 speaker tries to make the
addressee perform an action
asking ordering requesting

inviting advising begging

Please close the door.

REQUESTING
Sit down.

ORDERING
commits the speaker doing
something in the future.
promising planning
threatening
betting vowing
From now on, I will participate in our
group activity.

PROMISING
I am going to leave you.

THREATENING
I’ll call you tonight.

PLANNING
speaker expresses his/her feelings or
emotional reactions.
thanking apologizing

welcoming deploring
I am so sorry for not helping out in our group
projects and letting you do all the work.

APOLOGIZING
This beer is disgusting.

DEPLORING
speaker brings a change in the
external situation.
Declarations bring into existence or
cause the state of affairs which
they refer to.
blessing baptizing bidding

passing a
firing excommunication
sentence
 You are fired!
By saying that someone is fired, an
employer causes or brings the person’s
unemployment, thus changing his
external situations
CONCLUSIONS Cassie?
 EXAMPLE
CLASSIFICATION OF
SPECIFIC SITUATION EXAMPLE
SPEECH ACT
ASSERTIVE Cassie bought a new “I’m the only one in school who
gadget, and she shows it has this new iPhone model”
off to her friends.

CLASSIFICATIONS SITUATION EXAMPLE

Assertive
Directive
Commissives
Expressives
Declaration