This document discusses perception, interpretation, evaluation, and speech acts in intercultural communication. It defines perception as how people understand others and notice things using their senses. Speech acts are communicative acts that convey meaning through language. There are different types of speech acts including constatives like announcing or answering, directives like advising or ordering, and commissives like agreeing or promising. Speech act theory proposes that words alone do not have fixed meanings and are influenced by context, speaker, and listener. A speech act has three components - the locution or actual words, the illocutionary force or what the speaker intends to convey, and the perlocutionary effect on the listener. The document provides examples of different speech acts

1. Perception, Interpretation and
Evaluation
(Speech Act)
Alaa Ahmed
M80001724
Sadiq Midraj
College od education
EDU354(Communicative competence)
Introduction to intercultural communication
Date of presentation:19-4-2015

2. Out line:
 Meaning of perception.
 Speech act
 Types of speech act
 Speech act theory

3. perception
 The way you think about or understand someone or something.
 The ability to understand or notice something easily.
 The way that you notice or understand something using one of your senses.

4.  Effective communication depends on how well people perceive each others
intention and how they interpret the massages.
 - For example, the perceptions what is provides for something is evaluated
culturally(beautiful, ugly, polite or impolite.

5. Speech Act
 Any speech act is really the performance of several acts at once.
 Acts of communication.
 When the words become an actions.

6. 3 Components Of Communication:
Message

7. Speech types
1) Constatives:
- Announcing
- Answering
- Identifying
2) Directives:
- Advising
- Asking
- Ordering
3) Commissives:
-Agreeing,
-Inviting
-Promising
4) Acknowledgments:
-Apologizing
-Greeting
-Thanking
-Accepting

8. Speech act theory(1962):
John Austin
When we speak, our words do not have meaning in and
of themselves. They are very much affected by the
situation, the speaker and the listener. Thus words alone
do not have a simple fixed meaning.
 British philosopher of language
 He develop the speech act theory.
 He publish a book called:” How to do Things with
Words”
1790-1859

9. 3 Components Of Speech Act:
Iiiocution
Perlocution
Locution
What speaker means
to convey
Actual words of the
message
Hearer reaction’s to
speaker’s message

10. Illocutionary Acts:
 Convey an information (john will leave the room)
 Create a new state of affairs ( we the jury find the defendant to be guilty)
 Make a request (will you pay for my tuition)
 Make a commitment (I will take you to Disneyland for your birthday)
 Express an emotion (I’m thrilled that you will be going to law
school)
examples

11.  The illocutionary force is the speaker's intent. A true 'speech act'. e.g.
informing, ordering, warning, undertaking.
 Perlocutionary acts: have an effect on the feelings, thoughts or actions of
either the speaker or the listener. e.g., inspiring.

12. Constatives vs. peformatives
2- Performatives :
To perform an action.
 3 Types of performatives:
 Declarations :make it happen(pronounce you husband and wife)
 Directives :orders( leave the town immediately)
 Commissives) :commitment( I swear to tell the truth)
1- Constatives:
Statement that are true or false.
E.g.: It is raining outside right now.

13. we follow two types of rules:
 •Constitutive rules or Definition rules that create or define new forms of
behavior.
 •Regulative or Behavior rules that govern types of behavior that already exist.

15. Resources:
 * Austin, J. L. (1962) How to Do Things with Words, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press. (Develops the distinction between performative and constative
utterances into the first systematic account of speech acts.)
 (Moeschler, 1992)
 http://www.unige.ch/lettres/linguistique/moeschler/publication_pdf/speech_acts_con
v.pdf