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Indirect Speech Act - Coggle Diagram
Indirect Speech Act
Assertive/
representatives
Concept
Expressing speaker belief.
In the form : state, suggest, boast, complain, claim, report, and warn (that).
Example
I voted for Aaronson in the last election
Directive
Concept
Used to ask listener to do something.
can be in the form of asking for help, ordering, challenging, and inviting
Example
This is very cold inside
Declarative/ Performance
Concept
Making the listener pay attention to the speaker, it can be a bids, blessings, firings, baptisms, attests, marrying, and declaring a mistrial, and have aim to make some change
Made by someone whose right to do so is accepted and under situations that are considered suitable.
Causing a change in reality, meaning that after they are spoken, something changes in the world.
Verdictives
Concept
Kind of speech act that bound the speaker to do some act in the future
Can be promise, vow, offer, undertaken, contract, and threaten.
Example
By Friday, I should have that report to you
Commissive
Concept
Used to judge the listener act
Can be in the form of ranking, assessing, appraising, pardoning, accusing, charging, apologizing, congratulating, expressing sympathy, and praising and thanking.
Example
Your team seemed to have faced quite a few difficulties this period
Concept :
There is no relationship between structure, function, and a sentence type and its illocutionary force
Every additional illocution an utterance
The speaker does not explicitly state the intended meaning
Listener task to analyze the utterance to understand its meaning
Example
The Classroom is hot
I think it would be good if you sold that heap you call a car.