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Table 7.2
Illocutionary Speech A
cts
Illocutionary speech acts—task assignments
Illocutionary acts
Essential rule
Task assigned
Asking or answering a
question
Performance of an act in saying
something where a certain effect
is achieved.
Assert (confirm)
Counts as an undertaking to the
effect that
p
represents an actual
state of affairs.
Pretrain Task 1
Posttrain Task 3
Warn
Counts as an undertaking to the
effect that E is not in H's best
interest.
Advise
Counts as an undertaking to the
effect that A is not in H's best
interest.
Pretrain Task 2
Posttrain Task 4
Question (ask for)
Counts as an attempt to elicit this
information from H.
Thank
Counts as an expression of
gratitude.
Pretrain Task 2b
Posttrain Task 5
Request
Counts as an attempt to get H to
do A.
Source:
Adapted from Austin/Searle (AMCIS 2009, Austin, J.L. (1962). How to do
things with words. J.O.Urmson and Marina Sbiba, Editors. Harvard
University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Searle, J.R. (1969). Speech acts:
An essay in the philosophy of language. Cambridge University Press.
speech act type as a way to begin measuring the reduction in vocabulary
and word placement within a sentence for algorithm development. Alike,
task prompt 4 continues to “advise” with a status. The status for three of the
four study participants also uses the word “arrived.”
Task Prompt 2
1. Advise about Route 80 road closure.
2. Ask for detour directions from your current location to your
assigned neighborhood.
Task Prompt 4
1. Advise that you are now at the last house of your assigned
neighborhood.
2. Ask for medical resources to help a resident with breathing difficul-
ties. (Table 7.4)
