Searle's Classification of Speech Style

• Searle's Classifications of Speech Act include five distinct categories: Assertive, Directive, Commissive, Expressive, and Declaration.
• Assertive is a type of illocutionary act in which the speaker expresses belief about the truth of a proposition, with examples including suggesting, putting forward, swearing, boasting, and concluding.
• Directive is a type of illocutionary act in which the speaker tries to make the addressee perform an action, with examples including asking, ordering, requesting, inviting, advising, and begging.
• Commissive is a type of illocutionary act which commits the speaker to doing something in the future, with examples including promising, planning, vowing, and betting.
• Expressive is a type of illocutionary act in which the speaker expresses his/her feelings or emotional reactions, with examples including thanking, apologizing, welcoming, and deploring.
• Declaration is a type of illocutionary act which brings a change in the external situation, simply put, declarations bring into existence or cause the state of affairs which they refer to, with examples including blessing, firing, baptizing, bidding, passing a sentence, and excommunicating.
• Searle's Classifications of Speech Act include five distinct categories: Assertive, Directive, Commissive, Expressive, and Declaration.
• Assertive is a type of illocutionary act in which the speaker expresses belief about the truth of a proposition, with examples including suggesting, putting forward, swearing, boasting, and concluding.
• Directive is a type of illocutionary act in which the speaker tries to make the addressee perform an action, with examples including asking, ordering, requesting, inviting, advising, and begging.
• Commissive is a type of illocutionary act which commits the speaker to doing something in the future, with examples including promising, planning, vowing, and betting.
• Expressive is a type of illocutionary act in which the speaker expresses his/her feelings or emotional reactions, with examples including thanking, apologizing, welcoming, and deploring.
• Declaration is a type of illocutionary act which brings a change in the external situation, simply put, declarations bring into existence or cause the state of affairs which they refer to, with examples including blessing, firing, baptizing, bidding, passing a sentence, and excommunicating.