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SPEECH ACTS AND EVENTS, image - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Relates language to the speaker's intentions and actions.
- - - - Contextualize the utterance
        
        Performative Verbs:
        Performative verbs are verbs that explicitly indicate the performance of a speech act.
- - - - General Condition: fundamental requirement for the successful performance of a speech act
        
        Content Condition: The content of the utterance must be about future event.
        
        Sincerity Condition: The speaker must genuinely feel the emotion expressed in the speech act.
        
        Essential Condition: The speaker must express a genuine intention to perform the committed action.
- - - - Expressives: Convey the speaker's emotions, attitudes, or feelings.
        
        Directives: Influence the listener to take a specific action.
        
        Commissives: Commit the speaker to a certain course of action.