Illocutionary Acts In Speech Act

The illocutionary points of this type is focus on primarily on representing the speaker’s feeling, it was expressive, which express a psychological state (Levinson, 1983:240). The expressions such as thanking, apologizing, welcoming, condoling, congratulating, and etc,
The following data in form of utterances belong to the types of speech acts since it contains three parts of it. The first one is the locutionary acts when speaker produces a meaningful linguistic expression. The second one is the illocutionary acts since the utterance that is produced contains some kind of function in mind. The last part is the perlocutionary acts since there is hearer’s reaction toward the speaker’s utterance. There are four functions of illocutionary acts

The utterance “It seems you beat me, Mr. Bond” is identified as expressives illocutionary acts since that utterance performs the expression of psychological state of the speaker toward the hearer. That utterance performs action of congratulating since the speaker Gustav Graves show his sympathy toward what has been getting using indirect speech act to Mr. Bond as the hearer and also perform an action of congratulating towards the hearer’s action. The real meaning of the Gustav Graves’s utterance is illocutionary because, the explicit meaning of the speaker utterances is Mr. Chang express his feeling of the pleasure toward Mr. Bond’s victory and his feeling of honor toward Mr. Bond’s ability that have been beat Mr. Graves in the sword

It can be concluded that declaration is a kind of speech act that change the world via utterance. That utterance performs action of declaring since the speaker declares that his state cannot trust the hearer’s state since the hearer does the bad and the speaker’s utterance is form of direct speech act. The real meaning of the father of Colonel Moon’s utterance is illocutionary because, the explicit meaning of the speaker utterances is to make the world is change, the betrayal of the west by killing a Korean who is Colonel Moon make Korean cannot trust the west and can be a beginning of conflict between Korea and the