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Speech acts are utterances that speakers use to achieve intended effects, such as apologies, greetings, requests, complaints, invitations, compliments, or refusals. There are three types of speech acts: locutionary acts involve the literal meaning of words; illocutionary acts involve the intended meaning or function; and perlocutionary acts involve the consequences or effects of the speech act. John Searle further classified illocutionary acts into five categories: assertives express beliefs, directives try

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