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Type Of Speech Act Theory

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Please answer all questions 1-5 and each sub question, give examples if needed: 1. Analyse the following sentences (see page 2): What type of speech act is it? How do you determine this? In order to divide speech acts into categories it is important to define them and be aware of the existing categories. According to John R. Searle an Oxford pupil of J.L. Austin (to whom we attribute the Speech act theory), stated “the central tenet of speech act theory is that the uttering of a sentence is, or is part of, an action within the framework of social institutions and conventions”. In other words, what we say is part of what we do. Austin alleges that in addition to their meaning, utterances perform specific acts through their explicit force. Furthermore, he divides these utterances into 3 groups. The locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary speech acts. • Locutionary: the production of an utterance (phonic, phatic, rhetic) • Illocutionary: what the speaker aims to fulfil or accomplish by saying something • Perlocutionary: it has to do with the psychological consequences of what’s being uttered (by getting someone to do or grasp something). They are not always intentional and they are not always under the speaker’s control. The most dominant category of all three is the illocutionary speech acts. Searle grouped these speech acts into five types. 1. Representatives: the speaker is committed to the truth when he/she says something 2. Directives: the speaker want to

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