Zusammenfassung der Ressource
chapter 8 functions of language:
speech as action
- function of language
- speech acts
- interactivity
- communicating functions involves the speaker in a coordinated activity with other language users
- context dependence
- institutional facts
- Many speech acts rely on social conventions to support them. Every society has procedures and
ceremonies where some participants’ words carry a special function
- local context
- a utterance may signal one speech act in one situation and another elsewhere
- 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
- only comes into existence when two or more parties interact.
- Conversational Analysis.- Studies in the discourse analysis approach
- performative utterance
- Sentences that were in themselves a kind of action. A speaker makes a promise rather than just
describing one.
- expliciti performance
- Tend to be with as simple present.
Describing verbal activities.
- impliciti performance
- Could be marked, including the mood of the verb, auxiliar verbs, intonation, etc.
- the facets of speech acts
- locutionary
- the speaker says something
- illocutinonary
- the speaker signals an associated speech act
- prelocutionary
- the speech act causes an effect on the listeners or participants