Exercise 1: Rules for Speech Acts

Chapter 5 uses Searle's example of promising to illustrate the rules of a speech act. Think of one or two other types of speech acts and determine the rules necessary for each.
 
 

*adapted from Littlejohn (1999).
 
 
 


 
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