3. SAY IT AGAIN!
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Four furious friends fought for the phone,
four furious friends fought for the phone ...
Five flippant Frenchmen fly from France for fashions,
Five flippant Frenchmen fly from France for fashions
...
5. SPEECH ACT
An 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.
7. LOCUTIONARY
The actual act of
uttering.
ILLOCUTIONARY
The social function
of what is said.
PERLOCUTIONARY
The resulting act of
what is said.
TYPES OF SPEECH ACT
8. 5 Types of Illocutionary Act
1. Assertive – speaker expresses belief about the truth of
a proposition such as suggesting, putting forward,
swearing, boasting, and concluding.
2. Directive – the speaker tries to make the addressee
perform an action such as asking, ordering, requesting,
inviting, advising, and begging.
3. Commissive – commits the speaker to doing something
in the future such as promising, planning, vowing, and
betting.
4. Expressive – the speaker expresses his/her feelings or
emotional reactions such as thanking, apologizing,
welcoming, and deploring.
5. Declaration –brings a change in the external situation
such as blessing, firing, baptizing, bidding, passing a
sentence, and excommunicating.
