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    Speech Act Seatwork

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    This document analyzes 10 scenarios and asks to identify the type of speech act used in each based on 5 categories: representative, directive, expressive, commissive, or declarative. The scenarios include a father advising his child to watch less TV, a woman making a weather prediction, a doctor advising a patient to quit smoking, a passerby offering to help with a flat tire, a police officer placing someone under arrest, a buyer agreeing to a seller's terms, a judge pronouncing a couple married, a child expressing excitement about cookies, a teenager daring another to mock him, and a priest baptizing an infant.

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    Speech Act Seatwork

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    This document analyzes 10 scenarios and asks to identify the type of speech act used in each based on 5 categories: representative, directive, expressive, commissive, or declarative. The scenarios include a father advising his child to watch less TV, a woman making a weather prediction, a doctor advising a patient to quit smoking, a passerby offering to help with a flat tire, a police officer placing someone under arrest, a buyer agreeing to a seller's terms, a judge pronouncing a couple married, a child expressing excitement about cookies, a teenager daring another to mock him, and a priest baptizing an infant.

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    This document analyzes 10 scenarios and asks to identify the type of speech act used in each based on 5 categories: representative, directive, expressive, commissive, or declarative. The scenarios include a father advising his child to watch less TV, a woman making a weather prediction, a doctor advising a patient to quit smoking, a passerby offering to help with a flat tire, a police officer placing someone under arrest, a buyer agreeing to a seller's terms, a judge pronouncing a couple married, a child expressing excitement about cookies, a teenager daring another to mock him, and a priest baptizing an infant.

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    Speech Act Seatwork

    Uploaded by

    Fam Solomon
    This document analyzes 10 scenarios and asks to identify the type of speech act used in each based on 5 categories: representative, directive, expressive, commissive, or declarative. The scenarios include a father advising his child to watch less TV, a woman making a weather prediction, a doctor advising a patient to quit smoking, a passerby offering to help with a flat tire, a police officer placing someone under arrest, a buyer agreeing to a seller's terms, a judge pronouncing a couple married, a child expressing excitement about cookies, a teenager daring another to mock him, and a priest baptizing an infant.

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    Analyze the different scenarios below.

    Determine the type of speech act


    used by each item. Write REPRESENTATIVE, DIRECTIVE,
    EXPRESSIVE, COMMISSIVE, or DECLARATIVE.

    1. A father says to his child, “Why don’t you spend less time watching
    TV?”
    2. A woman says to someone next to her at the grocery store, “It’s
    going to be a very windy day.”
    3. A doctor says to a patient, “I advise you to stop smoking.”
    4. A passerby says to a motorist with a flat tire, “Let me help you with
    that.”
    5. A police officer says to a young man who was speeding, “You’re
    under arrest”
    6. A buyer says to a seller, “I agree with your terms”
    7. A judge says to a happy couple, “I now pronounce you husband and
    wife.”
    8. A child says to her playmate, “Yippee–cookies!!!”
    9. A teenage boy says to another teenage boy, “Go ahead–Mock me!”
    10. A priest says over an infant, “I baptize you in the name of the
    Father…”

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