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Searle and Austin argued that language is used to perform actions beyond describing facts ("doing things with words"). They observed that people make requests, give orders, and other speech acts that cannot be judged true or false. A speech act has a locutionary meaning from the words used, an illocutionary meaning as the speaker

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Krystal Klear

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