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Acts that bring about a change in status or state simply by being uttered, such as marrying a couple or adjourning a meeting. Key Components of a Speech Act
Acts like stating, describing, or predicting that something is the case.
Meaning is determined by a sentence's potential to play the role a speaker intended.
The broader framework of speech-act theory, which Alston refines, identifies three distinct layers of an utterance:
'ing). When a speaker utters a sentence, they take responsibility for certain conditions being true (e.g., in a request to open a window, the speaker is responsible for the condition that the window is actually closed). Taxonomy of Speech Acts