QUIZ#3 THE SPEECH ACTS

This refers to the actual effect or consequence of the utterance.

• Locutionary

• Illocutionary

• Perlocutionary

This refers to the intention of the speaker or the social function of the statement.

• Locutionary

• Illocutionary

• Perlocutionary

Who proposed the speech acts?

• John Longshaw Austin

• John R. Seale

• Harold Lasswell

• None of them

An illocutionary act for getting the addressee to do something.

• directive

• assertive

• commissive

• expressive

An illocutionary act for getting the speaker to do something.

• commissive

• assertive

• directive

• expressive

An illocutionary act that expresses the mental state of the speaker about an event presumed to be true.

• assertive

• commissive

• directive

• expressive

An illocutionary act that brings into existence the state of affairs to which it refers

• commissive

• declaration

• directive

• assertive

He later developed speech acts into 5 classifications.

• John Longshaw Austin

• John R. Searle

• Harold Lasswell

• None of them

Identify which type of illocutionary act is in this sentence

"I praise you for receiving the Pulitzer Prize."

• assertive

• commissive

• expressive

• directive

Identify which type of illocutionary act is in this sentence

"I request that you be here tomorrow one-half hour earlier."

• directive

• assertive

• commissive

• expressive