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Speech acts

Actions pertormed by an utterance, such as daring, questioning, or betting.

The force of language

It is the power of language to aftect and create the social world of the speaker

Performative sentences

Do not only convey information; in the corred context, they also perform the act of pronouncing, sentencing, betting, warning, quitting, and promising.

Performative sentences can also perform the act of ,requesting information.

They can perform the act of ordering.

By pronouncing any sentence the speaker is períorming an action. Of course, for the action to take place, the sentences have to be said (or wntten or signed) in the corred context and by the corred person