act theory that place Austin and Searle within a broader, multi-stranded tradition.

Types of speech act

Following J. L. Austin's distinction in How to Do Things with Words, many philosophers and linguists analyse ordinary utterances as involving at least three kinds of act: a locutionary act (producing a meaningful linguistic expression), an illocutionary act (performing an action such as asserting, questioning, or promising in saying that

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