9. 1. Locutionary Acts is the act of simply
uttering a sentence from a language.
2. Illocutionary Acts is what the
speakers intends to do by uttering a
sentence.
3. Perlocutionary Acts is the effect on
the hearer of what the speaker says.
(a) What is Pragmatics (b) Felicity Conditions (c) Speech Acts
(d) Locutionary; Illocutionary; Perlocutionary Acts (e) Direct &
Indirect
Speech Acts (f) Literal & Non Literal Speeach Acts (h)
Conversional
10. Indirect Speech Acts
Direct Speech Acts Direct Speech Acts. Indirect Speech Acts.
In general, the In general, the
syntactic form of syntactic form of an
utterance reflects the utterance does not
direct illucotuonary reflect any indirect
act. Example What illocutionary acts is
time is it is to respond to the
interrogative form is utterance is probably
used to ask the being used to
question / asking. perform an indirect
illocutionary act.
(a) What is Pragmatics (b) Felicity Conditions (c) Speech Acts
(d) Locutionary; Illocutionary; Perlocutionary Acts (e) Direct &
Indirect
Speech Acts (f) Literal & Non Literal Speeach Acts (h)
Conversional
11. For example, if you eat rainbow cake &
then announce, “I feel just awful”, you
mean exactly what you say. Thus, this
utterance constitutes a literal speech
acts. On the other hand, imagine a
student in English class who does not
know about Tenses. As he begins the
midterm exam, he turns to his friend and
says, “I just love taking English test”. He
doesn’t mean what he says. This
utterance then would constitutes a non-
12. We have seen that speech act can
vary along two dimension;
directness and literalness. The fact
that each of these dimensions has
two values means that we should be
able to identify four different types
of speech acts :
a. Literal and Direct; Example
b. Nonliteral and Direct; Example
c. Literal and Indirect; Example
d. Nonliteral and indirect; Example
13. a. Maxim of Quantity. The maxims
states: (1) make your contribution
as informative as is required (2)
Do not make your contribution
more informative than is required.
b. Maxim of Quality. This maxim
states: (1) do not say what you
believe to be false (2) do not say
that for which you lack adequate
evidence.
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14. c. Maxim of Relation/Relevance. This
maxim states: Be relevant.
d. Maxim of Manner. This Maxims
states: (1) avoid obscurity of
expression. (2) avoid ambiguity (3)
be brief (4) be orderly