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This document discusses speech act theory and its types. It defines a speech act as an utterance used to achieve an intended effect, such as apologizing, greeting, or refusing. There are three types of speech acts: locutionary acts, which are the actual utterance; illocutionary acts, which are the social functions conveyed by the utterance, like requesting or concluding; and perlocutionary acts, which are the resulting effects of the utterance based on context. Illocutionary acts are further divided into fi

Author

Meshu Qadir

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