The Importance of Speech Acts in Communication
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https://doi.org/10.47494/mesb.v25i.1405Keywords:
Pragmatics, competence, speech acts, classification, illocution, locution, perlocution, assertiveAbstract
The role of communication is to send and provide information to a receiver, convey meanings, messages in an attempt to create shared understanding among participants. Having described various kinds of syntactic structures and what they mean we see that people often don't seem to say what they mean. They use languages differently from its apparent meaning; it has functions are different from the apparent structure. Pragmatics is basically indispensable to understand what happens among interactors through linguists Austin and Searl who made up a theory on how language serves to perform action. Speech act belongs to the domain of pragmatics.
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