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Performative vs. Constative Performative: saying itself accomplishing a certain action, affecting, or changing the world in some way; such utterances perform acts. Performative verbs: promise, order, ask, propose, suggest, tell, warn, report, name, etc. Constatives : utterances which roughly serves to state a fact, report that something is the case, or describe what something is, e.g.: I pour some liquid into the tube.” Locution, Illocution, and Perlocution Locutionary Act （说话行为/叙事行为） the act of saying something Illocutionary Act (行事/施事行为) the act in saying something Perlocutionary Act （取效