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03 FELICITY CONDITION
01 02 03
2 it’s so cold
in this room
ILLOCUTION
02 REPRESENTATIVES
03 COMMISSIVES
04 DIRECTIVES
05 EXPRESSIVES
01 DECLARATIONS
These are words and expressions that
change the world by their utterance,
such as :
I bet , I declare, I resign
For example
For example :
1. I voted for Jokowi in the last election
2. I swear I have never seen the man before
3. It is raining
03 COMMISSIVES
The act which he words commit the speaker
to future action. Such as ;
Promissing, offering, threatening,
refusing, vowing, and volunteering.
For example :
FELICITY CONDITION
FELICITY CONDITION
• felicity condition are conditions that must be in place and are
criteria that must be satisfied for an utterance or speech act to
achieve its purpose.
For example :
I sentence you to six months in prison.
• Indirect speech acts is associated with • Speech acts and their linguistic realizations
politeness. For example : are culturally bound. The ways of expressing
Thank you for not smoking (expressive) speech acts vary from country to country. For
being used because it sounds more polite example :
and friendly than ‘No Smoking’ (directive) ‘How fat you are’ considering as praising in
a country where malnutrition is common, like
• Speakers use indirect directives for the Mauritania and South Africa. However, in
reasonableness of the task, the formality South Korea, these words express speech
of the context and social distance. Social act of criticizing, since their fashion and
distance can give speakers power and lifestyle have conditioned their people into
authority, and it is generally those of the thinking that slim is beautiful.
less dominant role and so on who tend to • Differences in speech acts conventions can
use indirectness. cause difficulties cross culturally.
SPEECH ACT THEORY
LIMITATIONS