Levels of speech act
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This document discusses three levels of speech: 1. Locution refers to the actual words used by the speaker and their semantic meaning. 2. Illocution is the performance of an act in saying something, such as informing, ordering, or promising. 3. Perlocution is the effect speech has on the feelings, thoughts, or actions of the speaker and listener, such as inspiring, persuading, or scaring them.
Levels of speech act
- 2. Locution: the actual form of words used by the speaker and their semantic meaning Illocution: the perfomance of an act in saying something Perlocution:speech act that have an efect on the feelings, thoughts or actions of the speaker and the listener
- 3. LOCUTION Saying something(the locution) With a semantic meaning Ex: - Hand some money over to me: give me some cash money
- 4. ILLOCUTION Illocutionaryforce Ex: informing, ordering, warning, undertaking, asserting, sugesting, demanding, promising
- 5. SEARLE (1975) Has set up the following classification of illocutionary speech acts: 1. Assertives: commit a speaker to the truth 2. Directives: cause the hearer take a particular action 3. Commissives:commit a speaker to some future action 4. Expressives: express the speaker’s attitudes and emotions 5. Declaratives: change the reality in accord
- 6. PERLOCUTION Inspiring, persuading, convincing, scaring, insalting, getting the addressee to do something. Produces an effect