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Speech Act Theory  What are Speech Acts? Speaking is performative Utterances are functional -Giving orders, instructions -Making requests, suggestions -Offering advice, opinions -Taking orders, taking advice -- These are “Speech Acts” Propositional Content/ Illocutionary Force Literal meaning of utterance “It’s cold in here” “There’s food in the fridge” “Thank you for not smoking” Aim, intention of utterance ?Offering ?Promising ?Enquiring ?Requesting ?Exclaiming in pain ?Ordering Three Kinds of Act Locutionary Illocutionary Perlocutionary Actual, literal meaning Speaker’s intentions in utt