Searle 1969 Analysis

Searle (1969) came up with four conditions (felicity conditions) when he analysed the speech act of promising. This can be adopted as a model for the analysis of other speech acts:
1.The propositional content conditions. They are text-dependent conditions pertinent to the propositional act.
2. Preparatory conditions. They refer to the background and knowledge about speaker and hearer which must be obtained prior to the performance of the act.
3. Sincerity conditions. They indicate desires, intentions, and beliefs of the speaker.
4. Essential conditions. They indicate the illocutionary point of the act. 'what the utterance counts as' Searle (1969: 33).

The standard frame proposed by Searle (1969: 56), will be adopted

Speaker must make the addressee distinguish that the speaker's utterance is beneficial for him.
3.2.11 The nature of warn The term warn means to tell somebody that something dangerous is likely to happen, so that he can avoid, for example :
54. I warn you that there is a bull in the field. According to Austin (1962), the speech act of warn is identified as a category member of the main class of Excercitives, that puts influence into effect, expressed by verbs that give a decision against or in favour of an action (Austin, 1962:150-155) Searle(1979:12), classifies advice as a directive speech act . Bach and Harnish(1979) classify warn as members of the subcategory of advisories (a branch of Directives). Advisories are based on the expressed attitudes, what the speaker expresses is a sort of belief to imply that doing an action is a good idea and it is in the hearer's interest. Moreover, the speaker's intention is that the hearer takes the speaker's belief as a reason for performing the act. (Collins, 1959:24) Searle indicates that warning is more like advice than like command in that it is used more to urge the addressee than to force him to avoid something which is not in his best interests; it is the negative of advice (Searle, 1979:

3.2.12 The nature of suggestion According to Searle (1979:12), Suggestions belong to the class of directive speech acts which are those in which the speaker's aim is to get the hearer to commit him/herself to some future act. Directives are attempts to make the world match the words. Bach and Harnish's (1979:48-49) indicate that the speech act of suggestion belongs to the category of advisory speech act which is a sub class of directives. For them directives implies that the speaker's attitude and intention must be taken as a reason for the hearer's action when performing an utterance The speech act of suggestion has both a directive and assertive use. One suggest that someone do something and something is the case. (Searle and vanderveken,1985:187). In comparison with other speech acts like ordering and insisting, suggestion is considered as a weak directive (Ibid :202). In suggesting something, the speaker informs the hearer the action named in the complement, is in the hearer best interest. It is a non-impositive directive. (Partridge, 1982:97). The speaker has no subservience over the hearer, and the speaker does not care quiet as much whether the action he suggests is carried out as does the giver of an order, demand, plea or even request .... (Green,