INTBUS 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Illocutionary Act, Phatic Expression, Language Game
6 Oct 2020
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Speech acts are units of dialogue that provide both meaning and reality. Searle (1970) defined a speech act as language that both describes and is the action. By using different types of speech acts: making statements, giving commands, or asking questions, an individual begins to not only operate within the world but also interact with the world around him or her. The individual further affects the attitudes and actions of himself or herself and those with whom he or she interacts. Overbey and preston-matto (2002) looked at how speech acts were used to develop charactors. Mythos and social interactions within the television show. Egner (2006) looked at how cultural differences between african and westerners affected meaning of the speech. Searle (1969) proposed a typology of five speech acts which addressed mutually exclusive categories of phrases, each with a specific communicative role: assertive, directives, commissives, expressives and declarations. Clark (1996) later distinguished two classifications within declarations: effective and verdictive speech acts.
