Oral Communication Quiz

This is an utterance that a speaker makes to achieve an intended effect. Some of the functions which are carried out using this are offering an apology, greeting, request, complaint, invitation, compliment, or refusal.

• Speech act

• Locutionary

• Illocutionary

• Perlocutionary

This act happens with the utterance of a sound, a word, or even a phrase as a natural unit of speech.

• Speech act

• Locutionary

• Illocutionary

• Perlocutionary

This act is seen when a particular effect is sought from either the speaker, the listener, or both. The response may not necessarily be physical or verbal.

• Speech act

• Locutionary

• Illocutionary

• Perlocutionary

This act is not just saying something itself, but the act of saying something with the intention of: stating an opinion, confirming, or denying something, making a prediction, a promise, a request, issuing an order or a decision and giving an advice or permission.

• Speech act

• Locutionary

• Illocutionary

• Perlocutionary

You and a friend are talking about a television show that you both watched the night before. You say, "what did you think about Luke's reaction to Laura's news?"

• Speech act

• Locutionary

• Illocutionary

• Perlocutionary

A father says to his child, “Why don’t you spend less time watching TV?”

• directive

• commissive

• expressive

• declaration

A child says to her playmate, “Yippee–cookies!!.”

• directive

• commissive

• expressive

• declaration

A priest says over an infant, “I baptize you in the name of . . .”

• directive

• commissive

• expressive

• declaration

A passerby says to a motorist with a flat tire, “Let me help you with that.”

• directive

• commissive

• expressive

• declaration

A parent says to her child, “I forbid you to leave your room.”

• directive

• commissive

• expressive

• declaration