Speech Acts

1. are group of utterances with a single interactionaol function

2. Types of ilocutionary acts.

2.1. Directives: advising, asking, forbidding, ordering, permitting

2.2. Commisives: agreeing, inviting, offering, promising,

2.3. Representatives: is a speech act that commits a speaker to the truth of the expressed proposition

2.4. Expressives: is a speech act that expresses on the speaker's attitudes and emotions towards the proposition.

2.5. Veridictives: Speech acts that make assessments or judgements.

3. Concept proposed by John Langshaw Austin in 1962.

4. A speech act has 3 aspects:

4.1. locutionary act: is the basic act of utterance, or producing a meaningful linguistic expressions.

4.2. Ilocutionary act: are the real actions which are performed by the utterance.

4.3. Perlocutionary act: the action that results from the locutionary act .

5. Federico bernal- Sebastian Gelves.