Locutionary act - Wikipedia

In linguistics and the philosophy of language, a locutionary act is the performance of an utterance, and is one of the types of force, in addition to ... Locutionaryact FromWikipedia,thefreeencyclopedia Jumptonavigation Jumptosearch Thisarticleneedsadditionalcitationsforverification.Pleasehelpimprovethisarticlebyaddingcitationstoreliablesources.Unsourcedmaterialmaybechallengedandremoved.Findsources: "Locutionaryact" – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR(January2021)(Learnhowandwhentoremovethistemplatemessage) Inlinguisticsandthephilosophyoflanguage,alocutionaryactistheperformanceofanutterance,andisoneofthetypesofforce,inadditiontoillocutionaryactandperlocutionaryact,typicallycitedinSpeechActTheory.[1]SpeechActTheoryisasubfieldofpragmaticsthatexploreshowwordsandsentencesarenotonlyusedtopresentinformation,butalsotoperformactions.[2]Asanutterance,alocutionaryactisconsideredaperformative,inwhichboththeaudienceandthespeakermusttrustcertainconditionsaboutthespeechact.Theseconditionsarecalledfelicityconditionsandaredividedintothreedifferentcategories:theessentialcondition,thesinceritycondition,andthepreparatorycondition. Thetermequallyreferstothesurfacemeaningofanutterancebecause,accordingtoJ.L.Austin'sposthumousHowToDoThingsWithWords,aspeechactshouldbeanalysedasalocutionaryact(i.e.theactualutteranceanditsostensiblemeaning,comprisingphonetic,phatic,andrheticactscorrespondingtotheverbal,syntactic,andsemanticaspectsofanymeaningfulutterance),aswellasanillocutionaryact(thesemantic'illocutionaryforce'oftheutterance,thusitsreal,intendedmeaning),andincertaincasesafurtherperlocutionaryact(i.e.itsactualeffect,whetherintendedornot).[3] Example[edit] Forexample,thephrase"Don'tdothat!",alocutionaryactwithdistinctphonetic,syntacticandsemanticfeatures,whichcorrespondstomeaning,isanutteranceservingaswarningtothelistenertonotdothethingtheyarecurrentlydoingorabouttodo.Furthermore,theillocutionaryactisimplicitlydescribingwhatthespeakerisdoingeventhoughtheutteranceislackingaperformativeverb. References[edit] ^Jacobsen,Martin."SpeechActTheory".{{citeweb}}:CS1maint:url-status(link) ^Norquist,Richard(January25,2020)."SpeechActTheory".{{citeweb}}:CS1maint:url-status(link) ^Green,Mitchell."SpeechActs".StanfordEncyclopediaofPhilosophy.{{citeweb}}:CS1maint:url-status(link) Thislinguisticsarticleisastub.YoucanhelpWikipediabyexpandingit.vte Retrievedfrom"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Locutionary_act&oldid=1019473195" Categories:SemanticsPragmaticsDiscourseanalysisStatementsLinguisticsstubsHiddencategories:CS1maint:url-statusArticlesneedingadditionalreferencesfromJanuary2021AllarticlesneedingadditionalreferencesAllstubarticles Navigationmenu Personaltools NotloggedinTalkContributionsCreateaccountLogin Namespaces ArticleTalk English Views ReadEditViewhistory More Search Navigation MainpageContentsCurrenteventsRandomarticleAboutWikipediaContactusDonate Contribute HelpLearntoeditCommunityportalRecentchangesUploadfile Tools WhatlinkshereRelatedchangesUploadfileSpecialpagesPermanentlinkPageinformationCitethispageWikidataitem Print/export DownloadasPDFPrintableversion Languages Français한국어MagyarNederlandsOccitanPortuguês Editlinks