pragmatics

1. LEVELS OF SPEECH
ACT

2.  Locution:
the actual form of words used by
the speaker and their semantic meaning
 Illocution:
the perfomance of an act in
saying something
 Perlocution:speech act that have an efect
on the feelings, thoughts or actions of the
speaker and the listener

3. LOCUTION
Saying something(the locution)
With a semantic meaning
Ex:
- Hand some money over to me:
give me some cash money

4. ILLOCUTION
Illocutionaryforce
Ex: informing, ordering,
warning, undertaking,
asserting, sugesting,
demanding, promising

5. SEARLE (1975)
 Has set up the following classification of
illocutionary speech acts:
1. Assertives: commit a speaker to the truth
2. Directives: cause the hearer take a particular
action
3. Commissives:commit a speaker to some future
action
4. Expressives: express the speaker’s attitudes
and emotions
5. Declaratives: change the reality in accord

6. PERLOCUTION
Inspiring, persuading, convincing,
scaring, insalting, getting the
addressee to do something.
Produces an effect