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3 Basic Speech Acts
<span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:15pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We use language to make statements, as in all of the previous examples. But we also use language for other things. The various uses of language we call ‘speech acts’ or ‘speech situations.’ A number of different speech situations are indicated or modified in <span class="Saanich" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">S</span></span><span class="Saanich" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">ENĆOŦEN </span>by putting a little unstressed word, called a <b>particle</b> or <b>enclitic</b>, after the verb.</span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:15pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Two of the most common uses of any language are to tell someone what to do and to ask someone a question that can be answered with a ‘yes’ or a ‘no.’ Every language has special parts of its grammar for these uses. These speech situations are particularly easy in <span class="Saanich" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">S</span></span><span class="Saanich" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">ENĆOŦEN</span>. We will be seeing similar little words in other sections. They are all covered fully in <a href="48--speech-act-modifiers">§48</a>.</span></span></span><br />
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