Speech act as one of the main aspects of pragmalinguistics

Speech act is a part of pragmatics where there are certain aims beyond the words or phrases when a speaker says something. Speech acts are acts that refer to the action performed by produced utterances. People can perform an action by saying something. Through speech acts, the speaker can convey physical action merely through words and phrases. It is easy for the speakers or listeners to determine the intended meaning of utterances if they are familiar with the types of speech acts and their functions. Hence, the aim of this article is analyzing speech acts from the means of pragmalinguistics. In order to achieve to this goal, following tasks are used such as, to define the speech act theory; to classify types of speech act; to analyze different examples of speech act. So, in this article, descriptive and classification and analyzing methods are utilized. As a result, with appropriate examples various types of speech acts are analyzed comprehensibly.