Lesson-4-Types-of-Speech-Act-Reviewer-1st-Sem-Midterms.pdf

MIDTERMS 1st QUARTER- ORAL COMMUNICATION 4. EXPRESSIVE - Expresses his/her feelings or emotional LESSON 4: TYPES OF SPEECH ACT reactions. ...

MIDTERMS 1st QUARTER- ORAL COMMUNICATION 4. EXPRESSIVE - Expresses his/her feelings or emotional LESSON 4: TYPES OF SPEECH ACT reactions.  UTTERANCE - Thanking, apologizing, welcoming, and - spoken word, statement, or vocal sound. deploring or removing someone in the - defined in terms of a speaker's intention and conversation the effect it has on a listener EX. My gratitude in upon you. (THANKING)  THREE TYPES OF SPEECH ACT BY J.L. AUSTIN (1962) I am sorry for everything. (APOLOGIZING) My doors are open to all of you. (WELCOMING) This is unbelievable! You have an affair with my ex-boyfriend! (DEPLORING) 5. DECLARATION - Brings a change in the external situation. - Blessing, firing (could be an employee or a gun), baptizing, bidding, passing a sentence (mostly in court with a judge), and excommunicating. EX. You are excluded in this company. The offender is guilty. 1, 2, 3, pull the trigger!  SEARLE’S CLASSIFICATION OF SPEECH ACTS 1. ASSERTIVE - Expresses belief about the truth. - Suggesting/putting forward, swearing or promising, boasting, and concluding or ending. (MOSTLY BOASTING) EX. It is much better if you add some colors. (SUGGESTING) I will never do that again. (SWEARING) I am better than everyone. (BOASTING) See you soon, goodbye (CONCLUDING) 2. DIRECTIVE - Speaker tries to make the addressee performs an action. - Asking, ordering, requesting, inviting, advising, and begging, - IMPERATIVE OR COMMANDING EX. Do you think I’m a smart person? (ASKING) Can you fetch me at 13:00.? (ORDERING OR REQUESTING) The party will be on 12th Ave. I’ll see you there. (INVITING) Mistakes are just lessons of our life. (ADIVISING) You can do that, be the change. (ADVISING) 3. COMMISSIVE - Commits the speaker to doing something in the FUTURE. - Promising, planning, vowing, and betting - USES MODALS: COULD, WOULD, WILL, AND ETC. EX. I’ll bet for twelve hundred. (BETTING) We will plan our wedding tomorrow. (PLANNING) I will love you till the world ends. (PROMISING OR VOWING) 4. EXPRESSIVE