SPEECH ACTS

• Speech acts 


  plays an integral part of communication in our everyday lives
• who credited the speech act theory?

  John Austin
• who extended the concept of John Austin?

  John Rogers Searle
• three types of speech acts

  1. locutionary
  2. illocutionary
  3. perlocutionary
• An act that is performed with the intention of producing further effect

  perlocutionary act
• it is the speakers intentions or implied meaning

  illocutionary
• it is performed or it is a response

  perlocutionary
• it is an act of utterance

  locutionary
• locutionary 


  anything that we pronounce, perform, or utter
• in illocutionary act, it is highly important that both the sender and receiver be familiar with the context of the speech uttered by the speaker