Talk
and Action
Group 10
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Mike Yulfa Acmi
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Nabila Firda
Speech
Act
1. Locutionary
Act: A locutionary act refers to the saying of something which containts
meaning and permits to be understood.
For example:
Read
the poem.Here the speaker does the act of saying and the hearer understands the
words ‘read’ the ‘poem’ and is able to recognize the poem reffered to.
2. Illucotionary
Act : When we speak or write an utterance or a sentence to accomplish a
function,it is called an illocutionary act.This is an illocutionary act means
an act performed in saying something.
For Example:
Shut the door.This utterance may be
intended as an order or a request or the like
3. Perlocutionary
Act: A perlocutionary act is the result or effect produced by means of saying
something.
For Example:
(He
persuaded me to)learn English
Cooperation
Cooperation can be understood as an
essential factor when speakers and listeners are interacting,in other words,it
is the expectation that the listener has towards the speaker.The speaker is
supposed to convey true statements and say nothing more than what is
required.When the people talk each other,they try to converse smoothly and
successfully.Cooperation is the basis of successful conversations.
In
the Cooperation,there are Maxims of speech,there are:
1. Quantity.Example:
If you are assisting me to mend a car, I expect your contribution to be neither
more nor less than is required; if, for example, at a particular stage I need
four screws, I expect you to hand me four, rather than two or six.
2. Quality.Example
I expect your contributions to be genuine and not spurious. If I need sugar as
an ingredient in the cake you are assisting me to make, I do not expect you to
hand me salt; if I need a spoon, I do not expect a trick spoon made of rubber.
3. Relation.Example:
I expect a partner’s contribution to be appropriate to immediate needs at each
stage of the transaction; if I am mixing ingredients for a cake, I do not
expect to be handed a good book, or even an oven cloth (though this might be an
appropriate contribution at a later stage).
4. Manner.Example:I
expect a partner to make it clear what contribution he is making, and to
execute his performance with reasonable dispatch.
Conversation
The basic assumption in conversation is
that the participants are adhearing to the cooperative principle and the maxim.
For
example:
Wife
: I hope you brought the bread and the cheese
Husband
: Ah,I brought the bread
In
this case.the husband does not mention the cheese.Then,he must intend that the
wife infers what is not mentioned was not brought.The husband has convey more
than he has said via a conversational implicature