SPEECH ACT AND K. BÜHLER’S FOUR FIELD SCHEME

SPEECH ACT AND K. BÜHLER’S FOUR FIELD SCHEME

Author:  E.A. Krassina

Affiliation:  Peoples' Friendship University of Russia

Abstract: 
The report treats a speech act as an illocutionary communicative act and its constituents reviewed through K. Bühler’s Four Field Scheme reveal both semiotic and semantic origins of a speaker -I, listener-you and speech action being represented within a performative utterance.

Keywords:  illocutionary act, communicative act, speech act, speech action, performative, performative utterance