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This document discusses speech acts and their classification. A speech act is an utterance used to achieve an intended effect, such as apologizing, greeting, or refusing. Speech acts have locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary dimensions. Searle later classified illocutionary acts into five categories: assertives which express beliefs, directives that try to make the listener perform an action, commissives that commit the speaker to future actions, expressives that express feelings, and declarations

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Bert

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