Speech acts

Language that is concerned with facts is called ...

• Performative language

• Assertive language

• Verdictive language

• Commissive language

I voted for Jokowi in the last election. That sentence is an example of ...

• Performative utterance

• Expressive utterance

• Directive utterance

• Assertive utterance

Utterances which are started with I or We are called ...

• Phatic utterances

• Expressive utterances

• Assertive utterances

• Verdictive utterances

Here are some words that can be used to deliver information in Assertive utterances, except :

• declare

• speech

• report

• announce

I declare this meeting adjourned. This sentence is an example of ...

• Performative utterance

• Phatic utterance

• Expressive utterance

• Directive utterance

Here are some examples of Explicit performative, except :

• I declare this meeting adjourned.

• We decide the best airport is Changi.

• This trial is mistaken.

• I declare this is a mistrial.

I pronounce you man and wife. This sentence is an example of ..

• Phatic utterance

• Verdictive utterance

• Commissive utterance

• Performative utterance

Here are some examples of words in Assertive utterances that are being used on the nature of the message, except :

• message

• dictate

• narrate

• preach

What kind of utterance that is neither true nor false but its purpose is to make a part of the word conform to what is said?

• Phatic utterance

• Verdictive utterance

• Performative utterance

• Assertive utterance

Blessings and curses are..

• Expressive utterances

• Performative utterances

• Verdictive utterances

• Phatic utterances