ORAL COM 7&8

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IPR: Ms. Catalina Pedraza- Rubrico

IPR: Ms. Catalina Pedraza- Rubrico

Representatives

commit a speaker to the truth of an

expressed proposition.

IPR: Ms. Catalina Pedraza- Rubrico

IPR: Ms. Catalina Pedraza- Rubrico

Commissives

commit a speaker to some future

action.

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Paradigm cases: promising, pledging,
threatening, vowing, offering.

● I am going to leave you.

● I'll call you tonight.

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Directives

-are used by a speaker who attempts

to get the addressee to carry out an

action.

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Paradigm cases: requesting, advising,

commanding, challenging, inviting, daring,

entreating.

EXAMPLE 1

You'd better tidy up that

mess.

EXAMPLE 2

Sit down.

IPR: Ms. Catalina Pedraza- Rubrico

Declarations

- affect an immediate change of

affairs.

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IPR: Ms. Catalina Pedraza- Rubrico

Expressives

- express some sort of psychological

state.

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IPR: Ms. Catalina Pedraza- Rubrico

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ALTERNATIVE RESOURCES

http://www.ello.uos.de/field.php/Pr
agmatics/PragmaticsTypesofSpee
chActs

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