THE SPEECH ACT THEORY. THE CLASSIFICATION OF SPEECH ACTS
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Keywords: pragmatics, speech act theory, speech utterance, classification, performatives, addresser, addressee.Abstract
Annotation: This article is devoted to one of the main issues of Pragmatics, the theory of Speech acts. The reader can get information by reading this article, about what does the pragmatics study and what is the speech act theory itself. Furthermore, the main part of the article is about John Searle’s and Austin’s classification of Speech acts. He classified into five main forms like, assertives, directives, commissives, expressives and declaratives.
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