ENG ELC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Performative Utterance, Pronoun, Phatic Expression
30 Sep 2020
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Form in language: grammatical categories, such as noun plurals, verb tenses, ; or types of structure, such as: declaratives. Surface features play an important role in ensuring that the intended meaning of a message is decoded by its receiver both effectively and efficiently. A single language form may be used to fulfil various communicative functions a single function may be fulfilled by various forms. Speech act theory: speech act consists of various components: Illocution: the social act that the speaker/writer performs with an utterance: locution: the way an utterance is expressed in words and phrases. The distinction between the two is essentially the same as that between function and form. Indirect speech acts: one speech act is performed through another; or a speech act is indirect if the wording seems to indicate one kind of illocution but actually carries out another. Form and function may not parallel each other.
