types of speech acts

– a type of illocutionary act in which the speaker expresses belief about the truth of a proposition.

• Representative

• Directive

• Commissive

• Expressive

• Declaration

a type of illocutionary act in which the speaker tries to make the addressee perform an action…

• representative

• directive

• declaration

• expressive

• commissive

Match the types of acts with their correct meaning:

 

1. Locutionary act 2. Illocutionary act 3. Perlocutionary act

 

A.   What is done B. What is said C. The effect on the hearer

• 1B 2C 3A        

• 1B 2A 3C

• 1A 2B 3C

a type of illocutionary act in which the speaker expresses his/her feelings or emotional reactions.

• representative

• directive

• commissive

• declaration

• expressive

a type of illocutionary act which brings a change in the external situation.

• declaration

• expressive

• commissive

• directive

• represenative

Which of the following are five types of speech acts according to Searle:

• Commissive

  Directive

  Declarative

  Expressive

  Rogatives

• Commissive

  Directive

  Declarative

  Expressive

  Representative

• Commissive

  Behabitives

  Declarative

  Expressive

  Representative

A philosopher of language and the developer of the Speech Act Theory.

• Noam Chomsky 

• B.F. Skinner 

• Jerome Bruner

• J. L. Austin 

What type of Illocutionary Act according to Searle is this: "Hurray, I'm so excited to go to the zoo"?

• expressive

• declaration

• commissive

• representative

• directive

– a type of illocutionary act which commits the speaker to doing something in the future.

• declaration

• expressive

• representative

• commissive

• directive

What type of Speech Act according to Austin is this: "I love you to the moon and back."

• Locutionary

• Illocutionary

• Perlocutionary