1. I christen/name this ship the Princess Elizabeth. 2. I now pronounce you man and wife. 3. I sentence you to ten years in prison. 4. I promise to come back by 6pm. 5. I command you to surrender immediately. 6. I apologize for being late.
Locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary speech acts
• Three facets of a speech act: Three facets of a speech act:
• locutionary act (phonic, phatic, rhetic): the production of a meaningful linguistic expression • illocutionary act: the action intended to be performed by a speaker in uttering a linguistic expression, by virtue of the conventional force associated with it. the con entional force associated ith it • perlocutionary act: the bringing about of consequences or effects on the audience through the uttering of a linguistic g g g expression, such consequences or effects being special to the circumstances of the utterance.