This document discusses three levels of speech: 1. Locution refers to the actual words used by the speaker and their semantic meaning. 2. Illocution is the performance of an act in saying something, such as informing, ordering, or promising. 3. Perlocution is the effect speech has on the feelings, thoughts, or actions of the speaker and listener, such as inspiring, persuading, or scaring them.

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