Pragmatics: Austin's Speech Act Theory

The term pragmatics was first introduced by the philosopher

• John Austin

• Charles Morris

• Paul Grice

Semantics is the study of

• the relations of linguistic units to context

• The relations of linguistic units to the object they denote

• the relations of the grammatical relations of linguistic units to one another and the grammatical structures of the phrases

Linguistic pragmatics is the study of the ability of language users to pair sentences with the context in which they would be appropriate

• Yes

• No

• It depends on the theory of the investigator

utterances have the same referential meaning but may have different pragmatic meaning depending on

• word order

• the context in which they are used

• The intention of the speaker

• Both 1 & 2

the propositional base of an utterance is its

• subjective part

• objective part

• both

The pragmatic component of an utterance is its

• objective part

• subjective part

• both

in Austin's Speech Act theory, locutionary acts refer to

• the effects produced in the listener/reader on hearing/reading the illocutionary act

• The act of saying or writing something in language using literal content of words

• the intention the speaker has when saying or writing something

In Austin's Speech Act theory, an illucutionary act refers to

• the effects produced in the listener/reader on hearing/reading the illocutionary act

• the intention the speaker has when saying or writing something

• the act of saying or writing something in language using literal content of words

a perlocutionary act refers to

• the effects produced in the listener/reader on hearing/reading the illocutionary act

• the intention the speaker has when saying or writing something

• The act of saying or writing something in language using literal content of words

According to Austin, speech acts are direct when

• the locutionary and perlocutionary acts coincide

• the locutionary and illocutionary acts coincide

• the illocutionary and perlocutionary acts coincide