Illocutionary Acts Exam Questions and Answers
this kind of verb names the action being done in the statement. For example, I forbid you to..., I promise you that... - Answer-performance verb
if a performance verb is used how do you classify the utterance? - Answer-explicit
If the performanc...
Illocutionary Acts Exam Questions
and Answers
this kind of verb names the action being done in the statement. For example, I forbid
you to..., I promise you that... - Answer-performance verb
if a performance verb is used how do you classify the utterance? - Answer-explicit
If the performance verb is not used, how do you classify the utterance? - Answer-non-
explicit
"Take it away, call me, put the cup on the table" - Answer-imperative
"Who are you? Are you okay? Where did you go?" - Answer-interrogative
"Wow! No way! Congrats!" - Answer-exclamatory
The weather is cold, my gerbil is scary" - Answer-declarative
Illocutionary Act: directive
name Direct syntactic form - Answer-imperative
Illocutionary Act: question
name Direct syntactic form - Answer-interrogative (yes, no, Wh-)
Illocutionary Act: expressive
name Direct syntactic form - Answer-exclamatory
Illocutionary Act: representative
name Direct syntactic form - Answer-declarative
Illocutionary Act: commissive
name Direct syntactic form - Answer-declarative
Illocutionary Act: declaration
name Direct syntactic form - Answer-declarative
If the Illocutionary Act matches the Direct syntactic form how would you classify the
utterance? - Answer-non-explicit direct
If the Illocutionary Act does not match the Direct syntactic form how would you classify
the utterance? - Answer-non-explicit indirect
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