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Q Weekly Assignment 3: Worksheet 1. Explain why each of these sentences is a performative. 2. For them to be felicitous, who has to be the person saying each one 3. Speech act theory is made up of three parts. Match the part with its meaning. 4. How do performatives have to do with consensual searches? 5. Describe the Bustamonte case in 2-3 sentences. 6. The Supreme Court ruled in the Bustamonte case that in consent searches, the state does not need to prove that the person who is giving permission to search knows that he has a right to withhold his consent. 7. Why do some people give consent to police (even if they know it might hurt them in some way). Why do they get confused between a request and a command? 8. Is the expression “do you mind” thought of as a request or a command when police say it. Explain?

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A typical performative utterance usually contains the pronoun “I” which all of them do except E. Also, they are performative because the speaker is actually doing what the utterance describes. Some examples of key words are “I Wish” or “I Promise” or “I Now”.