Oral Communication: Speech Acts

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Speech Acts

something that is expressed by an individual that not only presents information but, but alseo an action as well

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John Langshaw Austin (1962)

proposed the speech act theory

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Locutionary Act

it is the utterance of a meaningful sentence or what is said literally

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Illocutionary Act

The speaker's intention of what is to be accomplished by the speech act

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Perlocutionary Act

refers to the action that result from the locutionary act or what we bring about or achieve by saying something