6)Types of addressee
Direct
addressee (A)
is an intended direct
recipient of the speaker's (S)
communication.
A listener is
either an addressee
(A)
or a bystander (B),
indirect addressee.
Quasi-addressee
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7) Classification of Speech Acts
Illocutionary speech acts:
assertives
= speech acts that commit a speaker to the truth of the expressed
proposition
directives
= speech acts that are to cause the hearer to take a particular
action, e.g. requests, commands and advice
commissives
= speech acts that commit a speaker to some future action, e.g.
promises and oaths
expressives
= speech acts that expresses on the speaker's attitudes and emotions
towards the proposition, e.g. congratulations, excuses and thanks
declaratives
= speech acts that change the reality in accord with the proposition
of the declaration, e.g. baptisms, pronouncing someone guilty or
pronouncing someone husband and wife
PROF. G.
POCHEPTSOV’S CLASSIFICATION OF SA
CONSTATIVES
The
Earth is round
PROMISSIVES &
MENASIVES I’ll
come some time
PERFORMATIVES
I
apoplogise
DIRECTIVES
(INJUNCTIVES & REQUESTIVES)
Go away (, please).
QUESITIVES
What’s
your name?
Prof.
I.S.Shevchenko: METACOMMUNICATIVES
