Speech act

Actions performed by (a)   are called speech acts.

According to one classification system, how many types of speech acts are there?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

Locutionary act is basic act of utterance, or producing a ........ linguistic expression.

• communicative

• meaningful

• meaningless

• result

What does "perlocutionary act" mean?

• the purpose of producing an utterance

• the result produced by an utterance

• the propositional meaning if an utterance

• the implicated meaning of an utterance

What is performed via the communicative force of an utterance?

• locutionary act

• illocutionary act

• percutionary act

Felicity conditions refer to ....... circumstances for the performance of a speech act to be recognized as intended.

• social

• unexpected

• expected

• appropriate

General conditions which participants can understand the language being used and are not play-acting or being nonsensical.

• True

• False

The speaker genuinely intends to carry out the future action, and for a warning known as (a)   condition.

A declarative used to make a statement is a(n) ......... speech act, but a declarative used to make a request is a(n) ......... speech act.

• direct, indirect

• indirect, direct

Representatives are those kinds of speech acts that state what the speaker ........ to be the case or not.

• feels

• believes

• commits

• uses