Components of Speech Acts

Randy Agart introduces pragmatics, focusing on speech acts: locution, illocution, and perlocution. Locution involves the linguistic form of an utterance, illocution refers to the speaker's intentions, and perlocution concerns the effect on the listener. Various examples illustrate how context influences the type of speech act, such as warning, reprimanding, informing, requesting, and complaining. The video emphasizes the speaker's control over illocution but not perlocution, highlighting the complexity of communication.

What are the three main components of a speech act?

• Grammar, Vocabulary, Pronunciation

• Speaker, Listener, Context

• Syntax, Semantics, Phonetics

• Locution, Illocution, Perlocution

Which of the following is NOT a component of a speech act?

• Phonetics

• Perlocution

• Illocution

• Locution

Which component of a speech act refers to the linguistic form of the utterance?

• Illocution

• Perlocution

• Context

• Locution

What does locution include?

• The effect on the listener

• The speaker's intentions

• Only the words used

• Sounds, phonemes, morphemes, words, syntax, semantics

Illocution is primarily concerned with what aspect of a speech act?

• The effect on the listener

• The speaker's intentions

• The linguistic form

• The context of the conversation

What is the illocutionary force of an utterance?

• The grammatical structure of the sentence

• The literal meaning of the words

• The intended purpose behind the utterance

• The emotional tone of the speaker

Which component of a speech act is concerned with the speaker's intentions?

• Locution

• Illocution

• Phonetics

• Perlocution

Perlocution focuses on which aspect of communication?

• The speaker's intentions

• The linguistic form

• The effect on the listener

• The context of the utterance

Which component of a speech act is beyond the speaker's control?

• Locution

• Syntax

• Illocution

• Perlocution

What does the speaker control in a speech act?

• Context

• Locution

• Illocution

• Perlocution