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Speech Act Theory
This document provides an overview of speech act theory, which proposes that language is used not just to convey information but to perform actions. It defines locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary speech acts and discusses John Searle's classification of five illocutionary points: directives, commissives, representatives, declaratives, and expressives. Examples are given for each type of speech act. The document also includes exercises for readers to identify different speech acts.
