ENG01: CO3 FULL LECTURE PROPOSITIONAL CONTENT – which requires
participants to understand language not to act like
SPEECH ACTS – To speak is to act. It explains
how messages express speaker’s intentions.
LOCUTIONARY – “What is said”
ILLOCUTIONARY – “What is meant”
PERLOCUTIONARY – “What happens as a result
of speech acts”
CATEGORIES OF ILLOCUTIONARY ACT
 ASSERTIVES – is an illocutionary act
wherein the speaker states his or her belief
about the truth of something.
Ex. asserting, stating, concluding, boasting, and
describing.
 DIRECTIVES – is an illocutionary act
wherein the speaker aims to make the recipient
of the message perform an action.
Ex. requesting, advising, commanding, challenging,
inviting, daring, and entreating.
 COMMISSIVES – is an illocutionary act
wherein the speaker devotes himself/herself to
doing something in the future.
Ex. promising, pledging, threatening, vowing, and
offering.
 EXPRESSIVES – is an illocutionary act
wherein the speaker expresses his or her
emotional reactions.
Ex. greeting, thanking, apologizing, complaining,
and congratulating.
 DECLARATIONS – is an illocutionary act
that leads to the existence or establishment of
the state of affairs which they refer to.
Ex. declaring, baptizing, resigning, firing someone
from employment, hiring, and arresting.
FELICITY CONDITIONS – a sentence must not
only be grammatically correct, it must also be
felicitous, that is situational appropriate.
actors.
PREPARATORY – where the authority of the
speaker and the circumstances of the speech act are
appropriate to its being performed successfully.
SINCERITY – where the speech act is being
performed seriously and sincerely.
ESSENTIAL – where the speaker intends that an
utterance be acted upon by the addressee.
COMMUNICATIVE STRATEGIES
NOMINATION – collaboratively and productively
establish a topic.
- Opening a topic to other people.
RESTRICTION – any limitation you may have as
a speaker.
- Instructions that confine.
TURN-TAKING – process by which people decide
who takes the conversational floor.
- The primary idea is to give all communicators the
chance to speak.
TOPIC CONTROL – how procedural formality or
informality affects the development of topic in
conversations.
- Achieved cooperatively by making yourself
actively involved in the conversation without overly
dominating it.
TOPIC SHIFTING – moving from one topic to
another.
- One part of the conversation ends, and where
another begins.
REPAIR – how speakers address the problems in
speaking, listening, and comprehending that they
may encounter in a conversation.
TERMINATION – a strategy used to signal the
end of the topic through close-initiating expressions.