2. Defenition of Speech Acts
S peech act is the utterance
that occurs and act refers
to an action.
3. Types of Speech Acts
Locutionary speech act is roughly equivalent to
uttering certain utterance with certain sense and
reference
The illocutionary act is performed via the
communicative force of an utterance, such as
promising, apologizing, offering (Yule, 1996:48).
Hufford and Heasley (1983:250) states that
perlocutionary act is the act that is carried out by
a speaker when making an utterance causes in
certain effect on the hearer and others.
4. Purposes of Speech Act
The purpose of speech is what the speaker
wants to accomplish by speaking or have a
specific intention in pronouncing a sentence
when interact with the other. On the Other
side, purposes are something expressed by
an individual that not only presents
information, but performs an action as well.
5. Speech Acts as a Form of Action or
Activity
S peech acts as a form of action or activity
are that this speech act is also an action.
S peech Acts are
commonplace in everyday interactions and
are important for communication, as well as
present in many different contexts.
6. Defenition of Performative Verb
According to Austin, a performative
verb is one which, in the appropriate
circumstances and used performatively,
carries out the act it names
performative verbs make explicit the
precise action that is being carried out
in issuing the performative utterance.
7. Verdictives are typified by
the giving of a verdict, as
the name implies, by a
jury, arbitrator, or umpire.
Exercitives are the exercising of
powers, rights or influence. Examples
are appointing, voting, ordering,
u r g i n g , a d v i s i n g , w a r n i n g ,
Commissives are typified by
p r o m i s i n g o r o t h e r w i s e
undertaking; they commit you
to doing something, but include
a l s o d e c l a r a t i o n s
Behabitives: these are
related to social behaviour.
Expositives: they make plain how
our utterances fit into the course
of an argument or conversation,
how we are using the words, or, in
g e n e r a l , a r e e x p o s i t o r y
Classification of performative verbs.
