SEARLE'S CLASSIFICATION OF SPEECH ACTS

• Searle’s Classification of Speech Acts

    → categorizes utterances based on their intended function in communication.
• Searle’s Classification of Speech Acts: This framework includes five primary types, each serving different roles in the act of speaking.
• Classification of Speech Acts

  • assertives
  • directives
  • commisives
  • expressives
  • declarations
• Assertives

     → The speaker commits to the truth of what is asserted, i.e. what

  is said is believed to be true by the speaker.
• assertives: We watched a movie yesterday.
• Directives

    → The speaker makes an attempt to get the subject to do something by expressing his/her wish.
• Directives: Bring me some hot water.
• Commisives

     → The speaker commits to take an action in future.
• Commisives: I will call you tomorrow.
• Expressives

     → The purpose is to express the speaker's psychological state

  or emotions.
• Expressives: I’m sorry for being late.
• Declarations

    → The speaker brings about a change in the world via words.
• Declarations: I now pronounce you husband and wife.