Synnae
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Hello, I'm new here and I'm having trouble to identify something, so, I'd like if someone could lend me a hand. Please, analyze the following discourse:
Mary: "Your e-mail was rather brusque"
John: "You mean concise"
Mary: "You owe me an apology"
John: "I'm sorry that you don't know what brevity looks like"
Mary: "You're making it worse!"
John: "Then why am I so happy?"
As for the very first utterance by Mary "Your e-mail was rather brusque" it is an illocutionary act, isn't it?
What about the others? I'm having trouble more specifically on those utterances:
"You owe me an apology"
"You're making it worse!"
Are the two above utterances locutionary or illocutionary acts?
Also, I suppose all of John's utterances are locutionary acts, but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Please, help me.
Mary: "Your e-mail was rather brusque"
John: "You mean concise"
Mary: "You owe me an apology"
John: "I'm sorry that you don't know what brevity looks like"
Mary: "You're making it worse!"
John: "Then why am I so happy?"
As for the very first utterance by Mary "Your e-mail was rather brusque" it is an illocutionary act, isn't it?
What about the others? I'm having trouble more specifically on those utterances:
"You owe me an apology"
"You're making it worse!"
Are the two above utterances locutionary or illocutionary acts?
Also, I suppose all of John's utterances are locutionary acts, but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Please, help me.