Speech act direct and indirect

by asking permission to perform the speech act (a directive), e.g., May I ask you to pass the sal...

Illocutionary acts are considered the core of the theory of speech acts. As already suggested abo...

Dorschel, Andreas, 'What is it to understand a directive speech act?', in: Australasian Journal o...

The direct speech act was classified again into declarative type (2 utterances) imperative type (...

1. Use the typical association between sentence forms and speech acts. ... 2. Use the performativ...