"SAT treats speaking as a set of rules that govern social behaviour, in which people make claims, issue orders, ask questions, make promises, and so on, through utterances. As humans, we are essentially linguistic beings. Yet the distinctions between speech acts and their deliberate and effective use remain elusive to many. Pragmatics linguistics is the study of the use of language in everyday interactions with others, and is closely linked to social psychology."
"As the term indicates, this kind of language "describes" something that already exists-it is either happening right now (immediate present), or it has happened before (past). Stories and reports fall into this category because they describe or report events that have already occurred. This type of language can be either objective or subjective. Objective language includes making verifiable statements. Some examples include: "Yesterday was Monday," "Today it is raining," or "My car is white." They reflect realities or "truths" shared by most people."
Speech act theory treats speaking as rule-governed behavior through which people make claims, issue orders, ask questions, and make promises. Pragmatics studies the use of language in everyday interactions and links linguistic meaning to social psychology. Meaning is constantly shaped and negotiated between speaker and listener in context. Language can be classified into three types: descriptive, action, and possibility. Descriptive language reports events in the present or past and includes stories and reports. Descriptive utterances may be objective, offering verifiable statements, or subjective, expressing opinions, judgments, interpretations, and complaints.
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