I.
Here is Searle's classification for types of illocutions:
A.
Assertive: an illocutionary act that represents a state of affairs.
E.g. stating, claiming, hypothesizing, describing, telling, insisting,
suggesting, asserting, or swearing that something is the case
B.
Directive: an illocutionary act for getting the addressee to do something.
E.g. ordering, commanding, daring, defying, challenging
C.
Commissive: an illocutionary act for
getting the speaker (i.e. the one performing the speech act) to do
something.
E.g. promising, threatening, intending, vowing to do or to refrain from doing
something
D.
Expressive: an illocutionary act that expresses the mental state of the
speaker about an event presumed to be true..
E.g. congratulating, thanking, deploring, condoling, welcoming, apologizing
E.
Declaration: an illocutionary act that brings into existence the state of
affairs to which it refers.
E.g. blessing, firing, baptizing, bidding, passing sentence, excommunicating
II.
Assign the italicized verbs of the following sentences to one of the
five categories (A - E).
1. ___ I hereby testify that I sold
that property on July 3, l989.
2. ___ I praise you for receiving the
Pulitzer Prize.
3. ___ I pass. (Said while playing
bridge)
4. ___ If you need a ride, I offer to
drive you to the airport.
5. ___ I request that you be here
tomorrow one-half hour earlier.
6. ___ I permit you to camp out on my
front lawn.
7. ___ I recommend that you eat less
foods with cholesterol.
8. ___ I pledge to donate $500 to your
favorite charity.
9. ___ I maintain that Mickey Mouse is
a national hero.
10. ___ I bless the two of you. (Said by
a priest during the marriage ceremony)
11. ___ I abbreviate the Committee for
Untested Trials and Experiments as CUTE.
12. ___ I beg you not to go out during
this hurricane.
13. ___ I curse the day you were born.
14. ___ I name this dog Butchie.
15. ___ I compliment you on your
excellent choice of wine.
16. ___ I predict that there will be a
stock market crash later this year.
17. ___ I acknowledge that I promised to
take you to
18. ___ I implore you to leave that
no-good husband of yours.
19. ___ I require my students to do
homework assignments.
20. ___ I honor you for winning a gold
metal in the Olympics.