Speech Act Theory
- Speech Acts were introduced by John
Austin.
- They have the characteristic of actions in that their
utterance changes the world in an analogous way to physical
actions.
- He identified a number of performative verbs which
correspond to different types of speech acts.
- He also distinguished three aspecs of speech acts
- locutionary act- the act of making an
utterance.
- illocutionary act- the action performed in saying
something.
- perlocution- the effect of the act
- If I say: “I will teach you the beauty of multiagent systems”
- locutionary-
- illocutionary-
- perlocution-
José M. Vidal
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