PORTFOLIO # 4 - THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE: CHAPTER 10 & 11. Loading...
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PORTFOLIO # 3 - SPEECH ACTS. Speech acts : when words are actions. Actions: ordering, promising, apologising, warning, sentencing, christening, marrying. Two separate parts of speech: Constantive ("is"): sentences that describe something as true or false. Performative ("does"): sentences that denote an action. They depend on context and reception. These are known as felicity conditions: Authoritative Understood Clear Able to be executed If the performative doesn't meet these conditions, then it doesn't have the power to denote action. But just because a performative meets its conditions and is clearly stated doesn't mean that it's implicity followed.
