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This document discusses speech acts, which are utterances that can perform actions like requesting, threatening, or thanking. There are three types of speech acts: locutionary acts (the semantic and syntactic aspects of an utterance), illocutionary acts (the significance of an utterance within social interaction), and perlocutionary acts (the effect an utterance has on the hearer). Speech acts can also be classified as declarations, representatives, directives, commissives, or expressives based on their fun

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Meicio

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