Mod 4 oral com

a British philosopher of language. He is remembered primarily as the developer of the theory of speech acts.

is the mere utterance of a string of words with a certain meaning.

s the act of speaking to interact with the receiver.

is the act of uttering words to affect the behavior or manner of the receiver. It is also the act of trying to bring about a certain change in the addressee.

You leave the message unfinished because of language difficulties.

You try not to talk about concepts that are difficult for you to express.

You describe or paraphrase the target object or action.

You use an alternative term (ship) to express the meaning of the target word (sail) as closely as possible.

You expand a general word to the context where certain words are lacking, like the overuse of the words: thing, stuff, make, do, what-do-you-call-it, and what-is-it.

You create a new English word based on what you know of the way English works, like “vegetarianist” (which is not in the dictionary) for “vegetarian.”