Semantics - Unit 24 & 25 - Adam, Ragil, Ashari
Semantics - Unit 24 & 25 - Adam, Ragil, Ashari
Semantics - Unit 24 & 25 - Adam, Ragil, Ashari
E-UFIV NIT
UP 24
GR &
BY
25
LECTURER : DR. RAHAYU PUJI HARYANI, M.Hum.
Meet Our Team!
Ashari
Adam Ismail Ragil Gustaman
Pungkasana Aji
(2302180012) (2302180009) (2302180006)
Overview
UNIT 24
01 . DIRECT AND INDIRECT ILLOCUTIONS
UNIT 25
02. PROPOSITIONS AND ILLOCUTIONS
EXCERCISES
03. uNIT 24 & uNIT 25
(1) warning?
(2) thanking?
(3) apologizing?
(4) offering?
(5) asking?
HOW do we decide if ‘Would you like a cup of
coffee?’ is an act of offering and asking, and that
it is NOT an act of thanking, warning, or
apologizing?
This kind of question can be answered by studying Unit 24 - Direct and Indirect Illocution
Let’s identify! (.”)/
Ragil: Do you have 100?
Fina: Umm, I don’t think so..
Locution: the actual words uttered
Illocution(s): the speaker’s intention(s)
Direct Illocution: An illocution indicated by a LITERAL
reading of the grammatical form and vocabulary of the
sentence uttered
Indirect Illocution: Any further illocution the utterance
may have
Perlocution(s): The effect(s) of the utterance to the
hearer
Notice that the unhelpful reply still makes sense for (2) ‘Don’t you think you should call your mum?’
the said utterance which has both direct & indirect
illocutions.
Literal
Not literal
How to
identify
indirect
directive
illocution
How to identify indirect commisive illocution
Unit 24 Study Guide and Exercises
1. You should understand these terms and concepts from this unit:
a. direct illocution
An illocution indicated by a LITERAL reading of the grammatical form and vocabulary
of the sentence uttered.
b. indirect illocution
Any further illocution the utterance may have.
two types of illocutionary act:
c. directive act
A DIRECTIVE act is any illocutionary act which essentially involves the speaker trying to get the
hearer to behave in some required way.
d. commissive act
A COMMISSIVE act is any illocutionary act which essentially involves the speaker committing
himself to behave in some required way.
2. Give the direct and indirect illocutions of the following utterances.
Speaker is abbreviated as "S" and Hearer is abbreviated as "H".
a. pledging (C)
b. accosting (N)
c. accusing (N)
d. imploring (D)
e. complaining (N)
f. inviting (D)
4. Classify the following utterances as belonging to one of the following
categories: direct or indirect directives, direct or indirect commissives. For
the indirect acts explain which felicity conditions are invoked.
The felicity conditions invoked are not given here.
(2) What did you mean by telling me you’d think twice about
lending money to Gary? (S / U)
(a) Father promising to buy his son a rubber dinghy when he can swim:
‘I will buy you a rubber dinghy when you can swim’
1.You should understand these terms and concepts from this unit:
a. sentence meaning
is what a sentence means, regardless of the context and situation in which it may be used.
b. utterance meaning
is what a speaker means when he makes an utterance in a particular situation.
can be expressed by a declarative sentence describing the action which the speaker undertakes
to perform.
2. Express the propositional content of each of the following directives with a declarative
sentence (that asserts this content). Do the declarative sentences you give also have the
same directive illocution as the original? Comment on the relative politeness of each type of
utterance.
c. "I'd like you to do something for me." You will do something for me.
e. "Ouch!" complaining