2.2.1 Locutionary Act In Austin (19

2.2.1 Locutionary Act
In Austin (1962: 95), a locutionary act is the basic act of speaking, which itself consists of three related sub-acts:
(i) a phonic act of producing an utterance-inscription;
(ii) a phatic act of composing a particular linguistic expression in a particular language; and
(iii) a rhetic act of contextualizing the utterance-inscription.
The first of these three sub-acts is concerned with the physical act of producing a certain sequence of vocal sounds (in the case of spoken language), or a set of written symbols (in the case of written language). The second refers to the act of constructing a well-formed string of sounds/symbols (a word, phrase, or sentence in a particular language). The third sub-act is responsible for tasks such as assigning reference, resolving deixis, and disambiguating the utterance-inscription lexically and/ or grammatically.