Speech Acts and Events Quiz

What are actions performed via utterances called?

• Speech Acts

• Speech Events

• Illocutionary Acts

What determines the interpretation of an utterance as performing a particular speech act?

• The speaker's intention

• The circumstances surrounding the utterance

• The language used

What is the basic act of utterance which produces a meaningful linguistic expression?

• Illocutionary act

• Locutionary act

• Perlocutionary act

What is the communicative force of an utterance called?

• Locutionary act

• Illocutionary act

• Perlocutionary act

What are performative verbs that explicitly name the illocutionary act being performed called?

• IFIDs

• Felicity Conditions

• General Conditions

What type of speech acts change the world via an utterance?

• Declarations

• Representatives

• Expressives

What type of speech acts state what the speaker believes to be the case or not?

• Declarations

• Representatives

• Directives

What type of speech acts express psychological states?

• Expressives

• Commissives

• Directives

What type of speech acts are used to get someone else to do something?

• Commissives

• Directives

• Representatives

What are speech acts used by speakers to commit themselves to some future action called?

• Commissives

• Expressives

• Declarations