Acts

Who proposed the speech acts?

• John Longshaw Austin

• John R. Seale

• Harold Lasswell

• None of them

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

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

Identify which type of illocutionary act is in this sentence "I bless the two of you. (Said by a priest during the marriage ceremony)."

• assertive

• declaration

• directive

• commissive

Identify which type of illocutionary act is in this sentence "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."

• assertive

• commissive

• declaration

• expressive

Identify which type of illocutionary act is in this sentence "Welcome home!"

• assertive

• expressive

• declaration

• commissive

What type of Speech Act according to Austin is it when a woman turns down a proposal from her boyfriend?

• Locutionary

• Perlocutionary

• Illocutionary

• All of these