chapter 8 functions of language: speech as action

function of language
1. speech acts
  1. interactivity
    1. communicating functions involves the speaker in a coordinated activity with other language users
  2. context dependence
    1. institutional facts
      1. Many speech acts rely on social conventions to support them. Every society has procedures and ceremonies where some participants’ words carry a special function
    2. local context
      1. a utterance may signal one speech act in one situation and another elsewhere
  3. REPRESENTATIVES: which commit the speaker to the truth of the expressed proposition DIRECTIVES: which are attempts by the speaker to get the addressee to do something COMMISSIVES: which commit the speaker to some future course of action DECLARATIONS: which effect immediate changes in the institutional state of affairs and which tend to rely on elaborate extra linguistic institution
bet
1. only comes into existence when two or more parties interact.
Conversational Analysis.- Studies in the discourse analysis approach
performative utterance
1. Sentences that were in themselves a kind of action. A speaker makes a promise rather than just describing one.
expliciti performance
1. Tend to be with as simple present. Describing verbal activities.
impliciti performance
1. Could be marked, including the mood of the verb, auxiliar verbs, intonation, etc.
the facets of speech acts
1. locutionary
  1. the speaker says something
2. illocutinonary
  1. the speaker signals an associated speech act
3. prelocutionary
  1. the speech act causes an effect on the listeners or participants

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