Speech Acts

It is the study of the use of natural language in communication, focusing on inferred meaning received by the speaker and listener.

• Speech Acts

• Pragmatics

It is performed through the communicative force of an utterance.

• Locutionary

• Illocutionary

• Perlocutionary

It is the effect of an utterance on both the speaker and listeners.

• Locutionary

• Illocutionary

• Perlocutionary

The act of making a meaningful utterance which can be understood.

• Locutionary

• Illocutionary

• Perlocutionary

These utterances that commit the speaker to some future course of action.

• Representatives

• Directives

• Commissions

• Expressive

• Declarations

When the speaker uses utterances to get someone else to do something.

• Representatives

• Directives

• Commissions

• Expressive

• Declarations

The effect of these utterances have an intermediate change in the institutional affairs.

• Representatives

• Directives

• Commissions

• Expressive

• Declarations

The utterances produced based on the speaker's observation by stating a fact or opinion.

• Representatives

• Directives

• Commissions

• Expressive

• Declarations

These are the utterances that express a psychological state.

• Representatives

• Directives

• Commissions

• Expressive

• Declarations

Overall key, tone, mood or manner of speech.

• Setting & Scene

• Key

• Genre

• Instrumentalities