Searle speak act theory

1. Searle’ categories of illocutionary acts

2. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. M. A. YAVUZ
Written By: Kameran Noori Abdullah
Spring, 2020

3. John Rogers Searle
Born July 31, 1932 (age 87)
Denver, Colorado, U.S.
Searle's early work, was on speech acts
Searle's influence lies in narrowing the gap between philosophy and linguistics
His other works include
Expression and Meaning (1979), Intentionality (1983),
and The Foundations of Illocutionary Logic (1985).

4. Searle’s Speak Act Theory
How Speakers and Hearers use
Language
‘’Pragmatic is study of speaker meaning’’ Brown and Yule (1996)
According to Austin(1962) speech acts as the action which is performed in saying
something, saying something can be detected as doing something.

5. Austin (as cited inYule) states that “speech act is divided into three levels

6. Classification of
Illoctionary
Acts
John Rogers Searle ( 1979)

7. REPRESENTATIVES
Acts which commit the
speaker to the truth of the
expressed proposition
Example
The Earth is flat
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Yule (1996)
States
representatives
are types of
illocutionary act
that commit the
speaker believe
about something
the truth or not.

8. Directives
Example
Close the window!
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9. Acts which
commit the
speaker to
some future
course of
action
Commissive
Example
I promise, I will marry you
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10. 4Expressive
Speech acts
which express a
psychological
state.
Example
Thank you very much
to coming for my
hometown
You are
welcome

11. 5Declaratives
Speech acts
whose effects
immediately
change an
institutional
state of affair
and which
tend to rely
on elaborate
extra-
linguistic
institutions
You
are
fired
Example
No
please

12. Illocutionary act in the main characters’ utterance in mirror mirror movie
The main of this research were to find out the types of illocutionary act of the main characters’ utterance in mirror mirror
Movie by illocutionary act. The data is utterance of the characters in the mirror Mirror movie.
Representative and Commissive Illocutionary Acts in Donald Trump’s Inauguration
Speech.
The aims of this study are to find out the classification and the intended meaning of the representative and commissive
Illocutionary act found in the speech. The research method is qualitative analysis method.

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