SPEECH ACTS

An utterance that a speaker makes to achieve an intended effect.

• Locutionary Act

• Illocutionary Act

• Perlocutionary Act

• Speech Act

The actual act of uttering or Literal meaning

• Locutionary Act

• Illocutionary Act

• Perlocutionary Act

Resulting Act of what is said or the product.

• Locutionary Act

• Illocutionary Act

• Perlocutionary Act

Social function of what is said or the intention of the speaker.

• Locutionary Act

• Illocutionary Act

• Perlocutionary Act

In communication it refers to any limitation you may

have as a speaker.

• NOMINATION

• RESTRICTION

• TOPIC CONTROL

• REPAIR

Covers how

procedural formality or

informality affects the

development of topic in

conversations.

• NOMINATION

• RESTRICTION

• TOPIC CONTROL

• TOPIC SHIFTING

A speaker carries

out nomination to collaboratively

and productively establish a topic.

• NOMINATION

• REPAIR

• TOPIC CONTROL

• TERMINATION

It refers to the

conversation participants’ close-

initiating expressions that end a

topic in a conversation.

• NOMINATION

• TERMINATION

• REPAIR

• DENOMINATION

It pertains to the

process by which people decide

who takes the conversational floor.

• NOMINATION

• TERMINATION

• TURN TAKING

• TOPIC CONTROL

Involves moving from one

topic to another.

• TOPIC CONTROL

• TOPIC SHIFTING

• REPAIR

• NOMINATION