This document discusses speech events and speech acts. It defines a speech event as an interaction between two parties, a speaker and an addressee, with a single topic, within a specific time, place and situation. A speech event consists of 8 components including setting, participants, purpose, and norms of interaction. A speech act is defined as an action performed through an utterance, and can have three related acts - the locutionary act of uttering words, the illocutionary act of the utterance's function/force, and the perlocutionary act of intended effect. The document provides examples of declarative sentences, interrogative sentences, imperative sentences and performative sentences.