MOD7

• Locutionary acts - the mere act of producing some linguistic sounds or marks with a certain meaning and reference. Locutionary act refers to any utterances that may contain statements or words about objects.
• Susana Nuccetell and Gary Seay defined locutionary acts in 2007 in their book Philosophy of Language: Central Topics
• Illocutionary Acts - acting part of the speech act. It carries a directive for the audience.
• Two kinds of illocutionary acts:

  1. constantive
  2. performative
• Illocutionary acts cateogries:

  1. assertive
  2. declarative
  3. expressive
  4. commissive
  5. directive
• asertive - speaker expresses belief about the truth of a proposition
• directive - speaker tries to make the addressee perform an action
• commissive - speaker commits to future actions
• expressive - speaker expresses his/her feelings or emotional reactions
• declarative - brings change in an external situation, bring into existence, or cause the state of affairs
• perlocutionary acts - speech that produces an effect