Oral com lesson 1

• Types of Speech Act:
• Locutionary act: refers to the actual utterance of the speaker
• Illocutionary act: refers to the intended utterance by the speaker (performance)
• Perlocutionary act: refers to the actions that result from the locution or what we bring about or achieve by saying something
• Assertive: speaker expresses belief about the truth of a proposition
• Directive: speaker tries to make the addressee perform an action
• Commissive: speaker commits to doing something in the future
• Expressive: speaker expresses feelings or emotional reactions
• Declaration: act which brings a change in the external situation
• Assertive: "No one makes better sandwich than I do"
• Directive: "Would you make me a cup of tea?"
• Commissive: "I promise to come at eight and cook a nice dinner for you"
• Expressive: "Thank you for your kind offer"
• Declaration: "I bequeath all my property to my beloved fiancée"
• Actions that result from the locution or what we bring about by saying something
• Example: If illocutions cause listeners to do something, they are perlocutions