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    The document outlines John Searle's five types of illocutionary acts: 1) Expressive acts express the speaker's feelings and attitudes, such as thanking, apologizing, welcoming, and deploring. 2) Commissive acts commit the speaker to future actions like promises, threats, pledges, and contracts. 3) Representative acts state what the speaker believes to be true, like descriptions, claims, and predictions. 4) Directive acts try to get the listener to perform actions, including orders, commands, requests, and suggestions. 5) Declarative acts bring about immediate changes through utterances, such as bidding, firings, and adjourning meetings.

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    The document outlines John Searle's five types of illocutionary acts: 1) Expressive acts express the speaker's feelings and attitudes, such as thanking, apologizing, welcoming, and deploring. 2) Commissive acts commit the speaker to future actions like promises, threats, pledges, and contracts. 3) Representative acts state what the speaker believes to be true, like descriptions, claims, and predictions. 4) Directive acts try to get the listener to perform actions, including orders, commands, requests, and suggestions. 5) Declarative acts bring about immediate changes through utterances, such as bidding, firings, and adjourning meetings.

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    5 Illocutionary acts by john searle

    a. Expressive
    ● Expresses how the speaker feels about the situation
    ● Reveals the speaker's attitude and emotions towards a particular preposition
    ● Thanking, apologizing, welcoming, deploring (meaning when you have disapproval of
    something)
    i. Example
    1. Thank you for subscribing to my channel
    2. Welcome back
    3. I’m sorry i didn't mean to hurt you
    b. Commissive
    ● Speaker commits to doing something in the future
    ● Vows, threats, pledges, guarantees, contracts, promises, covenants and oaths
    i. Example
    1. Starting next month i promise to wake up early
    2. Honey ill be there tomorrow
    3. I pledge allegiance to flag
    4. When you bet about something
    c. Representative
    ● acts in which the words state what the speaker believes to be the case
    ● Describing, claiming, insisting, predicting
    i. Example
    1. The earth is flat
    2. It was a warm sunny day
    d. Directive
    ● An act which commits the speaker to doing something in the future
    ● Speaker tries to make the receiver perform an action
    ● Ordering, commanding, requesting, pleading, begging, praying, insisting and suggesting
    i. Example
    1. Joy please stop playing mobile legends
    2. Please vote for me (requesting)
    e. Declarative
    ● Brings change in the external situation
    ● An utterance changes the world in an immediate way
    i. Example
    1. During bidding,you are immediately stating that product is yours
    2. “You are fired”
    3. The words I hereby in “i hereby declare a total lockdown” is a declaration of a
    big change
    4. “The meeting is adjourned” it is a declaration to end the meeting
    f. Assertive
    ● An utterance intended to tell you how things are in the world
    ● Asserting confidence and the quality of tone of your voice is important
    ● The utterance comes of as the truth
    ● Statement, description, clarification, explanation and clarification
    i. Example
    1. Womens brain is different from mens brain
    2. All men are mortal
    3. When you put forward comments and ideas
    4. When you boast and talk about yourself

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