week 5

• brings a change in the external

  situation like blessing, firing, baptizing

  declaration
• expresses his/her feelings or

  emotional reactions

  expressive
• commits the speaker to doing

  something in the future

  commissive
• tries to make the addressee perform

  an action by ordering, requesting

  directive
• expresses belief about the truth of a

  proposition like opinion, putting forward

  assertive
• it is an act of making a meaningful

  utterance, saying in exact

  locutionary act
• act of saying something with

  intention and making a

  prediction

  illocutionary act
• pertains acts in accord with the

  utterance of something to get a

  response, making an effect

  perlocutionary ac