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Working Definitions: behabitives a kind of performative concerned roughly with reactions to behavior and with behavior towards others and designed to exhibit attitudes and feelings not concerned with motive, concerned with (?) expositives expositional performatives ; the main body of the utterance has generally or often the straightforward form of a statement, but there is an explicit performative verb at its head verdicitves: can be descriptive merely of a state of mind Classes:
1. Locution act is the performance of an utterance, and hence of a speech act.
a. Phonetic Act the act of making a sound, uttering certain noises
b. Phatic Act uttering certain words or vocables, noises that belong to a certain vocabulary c. Rhetic Act performing an act with the vocables with a certain more or less definite sense and reference
2. Illocution term created by Austin. informing, ordering, warning, undertaking
3. Perlocution a speech act that produces certain consequential effects upon the feelings, thoughts, or actions of the audience. What we bring about by saying something ( such as convincing, persuading, deterring, surprising or misleading) Pheme (unit of language) vs Rheme (unit of speech)
Discussion Questions 1. does a “not pure” behabitives need emotions.. vs an explicit performative.. pg 83
pg. 88
Pure Explicit Performatives:
Not Pure Explicit Performatives:
1) I forecast, predict
1) I foresee, expect, anticipate
2) I endorse, assent to
2) I agree with that opinion
3) I question whether it is so
3) I wonder whether it is so
What differences and variations did you notice between these performatives? Distinguishing characteristics? 2. p. 97 Can we perform a rhetic act without referring or without naming ? does a rhetic act need to contain both a phonetic and phatic act?
3. p. 92 “When we issue any utterance
1. Locution act is the performance of an utterance, and hence of a speech act.
a. Phonetic Act the act of making a sound, uttering certain noises
b. Phatic Act uttering certain words or vocables, noises that belong to a certain vocabulary c. Rhetic Act performing an act with the vocables with a certain more or less definite sense and reference
2. Illocution term created by Austin. informing, ordering, warning, undertaking
3. Perlocution a speech act that produces certain consequential effects upon the feelings, thoughts, or actions of the audience. What we bring about by saying something ( such as convincing, persuading, deterring, surprising or misleading) Pheme (unit of language) vs Rheme (unit of speech)
Discussion Questions 1. does a “not pure” behabitives need emotions.. vs an explicit performative.. pg 83
pg. 88
Pure Explicit Performatives:
Not Pure Explicit Performatives:
1) I forecast, predict
1) I foresee, expect, anticipate
2) I endorse, assent to
2) I agree with that opinion
3) I question whether it is so
3) I wonder whether it is so
What differences and variations did you notice between these performatives? Distinguishing characteristics? 2. p. 97 Can we perform a rhetic act without referring or without naming ? does a rhetic act need to contain both a phonetic and phatic act?
3. p. 92 “When we issue any utterance