Narrative Creative Writing Skills English Presentation in Charcoal Colourfu_2024.pdf

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1. Types of SPEECH ACT

2. By the end of the lesson, you will have been able to;
-define speech act;
-distinguish types of speech act;
-recognize that communicative competence requires
understanding of speech act;
-demonstrate effective use of communicative strategy in a variety of
speech situations
-apply learning and teaching skills, and ICT literacy in undertanding the
types of speech acts; and
-reflect on your learning on the types of speech acts.

3. DEFINITION OF
SPEECH ACT

4. A speech act is an utterance that a
speaker makes to achieve an
intended effect. Some of the
functions which are carried out using
speech acts are offering an apology,
greeting, request, complaint,
invitation, compliment, or refusal.

5. TYPES OF SPEECH ACT
3
LOCUTIONARY ACT
ILLOCUTIONARY ACT
PERLOCUTIONARY ACT

6. 1. Locutionary Act - is the actual of suffering.
Example : "Please do the dishes"
2. Illocutionary Act - is the social function of what is said.
Example : By uttering the locution "Please do the
dishes", the speaker requests the addressee to wash the
dishes.
3. Perlocutionary Act - is the resulting act of what is said.
This effect is based on the particular context in which the
speech act was mentioned.
Example : "Please do the dishes" would lead to the
addressee washing the dishes.

7. PERFORMATIVES

8. In these manner, the verbs execute the speech act
that they intend to effect are called performatives. A
performative utterance said by the right circumstances
results in a change in the world. Note that certain
conditions have to be met when making a
performative utterance.

9. Searle's
classIfIcatIons
of speech act

10. John Searle (1976), classified illocutionary
acts into five distinct categories.
1 ASSERTIVE
2 DIRECTIVE
3 COMMISIVE
4 EXPRESSIVE
5 DECLARATION

11. AFFECTIVE - a type of illocutionary act in which the
speaker expresses belief about thruth of proposition.
Some examples of an assertive act are suggesting,
putting forward, swearing, boasting, and concluding.
DIRECTIVE - a type of illocutionary act in which the
speaker tries to make the addressee perform an action.
Some examples of a directive act are asking, ordering,
requisting, inviting, advising, and begging.
COMMISIVE - a type of illocutionary act which commits
the speaker to doing something in the future. Examples
of a commisive act are promising, planning, vowing, and
betting.
Ex. No one makes better
pancakes than I do
Ex. Please close the door.
Ex. From now on, I will
participate in our group
activity.
EXAMPLE:

12. EXPRESSIVE - a type of illocutionary
act which the speaker expresses
his/her feelings or emotional reactions.
Some examples of an expressive act
are thanking, apologizing, welcoming,
and deploring.
DECLARATION - a type of illocutionary act
which brings a change in the external
situation. Simply put, declarations bring
into existence or cause the state of affairs
which they refer to. Some examples of
declarations are blessing, firing, baptizing,
bidding, passing a sentence, and
excommunicating.
Ex. I am so sorry for not helping out in
our group projects and letting you do
all the work.
Ex. You are fired!

13. THANK YOU!