Direct and indirect speech acts

1. Choose true or false:

An utterance is seen as a direct speech act when there is a direct relationship between the structure and the communicative function of the utterance. 

• True

• False

2. Identify the three basic structures and its communicative function in the direct speech acts.

• Interrogatives for making statements, declaratives for asking questions, and imperatives express commands.

• Declaratives for making statements, interrogatives for asking questions, and imperatives express commands.

• Declaratives for making sentences, imperatives for asking questions, and interrogatives to express commands.

3. “Take some photos!”, it has the function of….?

• for making statements

• for asking questions

• express commands and/or requests

4. Performative verbs such as order, advise and promise are used to make a direct speech act.

• True

• False

5. There is an indirect relationship between the form and the function of the utterance.

• True

• False

6. In an indirect speech act which utterance element demonstrates a different meaning?

• The form

• Function

7. The question: Could you pass me the salt? is:

• A direct speech act

• An indirect speech act

8. One of the objectives of the Indirect Speech act is…

• To avoid providing directives

• To avoid to sound exaggerated

• To avoid conventional implicatures

• To analyze the utterance without context

10. A rhetorical question is a…

• Command intended to be a genuine request for information.

• Apelative sentence intended to be an ingenuine answer.

• Request intended to be genuine information.

• Interrogative sentence but is not intended to be a genuine request for information.

9. The indirect speech acts can not be used to make polite requests.

• True

• False