ABSTRACT
In late 2008, the American International Group (AIG) received a government bailout of $182 billion, the largest corporate bailout in history, to ward off a financial collapse. despite posting a loss of $61.7 billion in the fourth quarter of that year – also the largest loss in corporate history – it was revealed in March, 2009, that AIG had already paid out $165 million in bonus pay to executives. In each of the authentic utterances, the speaker or writer linguistically manifests acts of predicting, warning and wishing, respectively. The locutionary act is simply the act of saying something, i.e. the locution is the compilation of the words uttered. The illocutionary force refers to the intent of the speaker, i.e. the specific purpose the speaker has in uttering the words. Examples of various illocutionary acts include greeting, inviting and refusing.
