Speech Acts - are utterances showing speaker's aim and its influences to listener.

Types of Speech Act

1) Locutionary Act - this refer to the actual words spoken and are interpreted traditionally.

2) Illocutionary Act - this refers to the utterances showing what does the speaker perform while saying something. It is determine by the communicative force applied.

3) Perlocutionary Act - this refers to the influences of the utterances to the listener.

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