Expressive Illocutionary Speech Acts in Chinese Children Novel

An expressive illocutionary speech act is a in which speaker expresses his thoughts and feelings of being thanking apologizing. Usually, one utterance conveys meaning, but this research, sentence has two to four additional meanings. This phenomenon came from elements outside the that affect presence meaning. The aim present indication can have more than meaning expand theory acts. research used qualitative method examine role context these Vanderveen & Macqueen's list performative verbs (1990) guide analyzing 96 data determine context. result shows some multiple senses There are two, three, or meanings sentence. To praise most common function found. When admiring someone, also announces agreement offers something future. many tasks praising found show author children's novel set an example for readers, especially children, respect others with