Understanding Discourse and Speech Acts by John Searle
Explore John Searle's classification of speech acts including constatives and performatives. Learn about assertives, directives, commissives, expressives, and declarations. Understand the components of speech acts - Locution, Illocution, and Perlocution.
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Discourse and speech acts John Searle classifies constatives and performatives assertives declarations, directives, commissives expressive
Assertives: Example: ``No one makes a better cake than me Directives: Example: ``Could you close the window. Commisives: Example: ``I'm going to Paris tomorrow For more examples see page 32
Commisives: Example: ``I'm going to Paris tomorrow Expressives: Example: ``I am sorry that I lied to you'' Declarations: Example: ``You are fired
The components/elements of the speech act: Locution: the actual meaning of what is said. *Illocution: the intended meaning of what is said. *Perlocution: the result or the effect of what has been said.
