![]() Three sentence types that correspond with these direct speech acts Most of the world’s languages seem to have these sentence types and speech actsĩ Assertion Declarative convey information Mary read the book. Locution: form of the utterance What is your name? WH-Question Illocution: the intention of the speaker-elicit information Can I have your name? Yes/No Illocution: _ħ You must stop smoking Locution: Subject-You Predicate-Must stop smoking Illocution: orderĭirect and indirect speech acts Three basic types of direct speech acts. ![]() Speech acts: Asking for a pencil Threatening to get a pencil Promising to get a pencil Ordering someone to get a pencil. I’ll come in on Saturday to finish the project.ĥ People use language to accomplish certain kinds of acts = speech acts. Austin-How to do things with wordsĪn utterance can be used to perform an act Please close the door I’m sorry for the way I acted. Nepali: Timile bhat khayo Tapaile bhat khanubhayo. Pragmatics Philosopher J.L.Austin’s book How to do things with words (1962) ![]() ![]() 1 Philosopher J.L.Austin’s book How to do things with words (1962) ![]()
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