CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Performative utterances (or performatives) are defined in the speech acts theory as sentences which are not only passively describing a given reality, but they are changing the (social) reality they are describing.

Detailed explanation-2: -Performative Verbs Examples are: promise, name, bet, agree, swear, declare, order, predict, warn, insist, declare or refuse. The propositional content of the utterance functions as a complement of the performative verb.

Detailed explanation-3: -Speech act verbs are used to refer to situations characterized by the following features or situational roles: a speaker (S), a hearer (H), a set of speaker attitudes, and an utterance (Utt) mostly containing a proposition (P).

Detailed explanation-4: -Promising is a commissive speech act whose illocutionary force is that the speaker promises to do a future action to the benefit of a hearer by expressing its proposition (e.g., a promise) to the hearer (Searle, 1969). By promising, the speaker commits to doing this future action.