Speech Act

• Locutionary act is the actual act of uttering or saying something.
• Locutionary act happens with the utterances of a sound, a word or even a phrase as a natural unit of speech.
• For the utterances to be a Locutionary Act, they must have sense, and mostly importantly, for communication to take place.
• Locutionary act must have the same meaning to both the speaker and the listener.
• Locutionary act gives rise to shared meaning when it is adjusted by the speaker for the listener.
• Perlocutionary act is seen when a particular effect is sought from either the speaker or the listener, or both.
• The aim of Perlocutionary Speech Act is to change feelings, thoughts, or actions.
• The response to a Perlocutionary act may not necessarily be physical or verbal and is elicited by inspiring or insulting, persuading/convincing, or deterring/scaring.
• Perlocutionary act refers to the consequent effect of what was said, which is based on the particular context in which the speech act was mentioned.
• Illocutionary act is the social function of what is said.
• In an illocutionary speech act, it is not just saying something itself but with the act of saying something with the intention of: