2. Acts
The action performed by producing an utterance will consist of three related acts.
1. Locutionary act: is the basic act of utterance or producing a meaningful linguistic expression.
2. Illocutionary act: mostly we don't just produce well-formed utterances with no purpose. We form an utterance with some kind of function in mind.
3. Perlocutionary act: we do not, of course, simply create an utterance with a function without intending it to have an effect.\
Q: How can speakers assume that the intended illocutionary force will be recognized by the hearer?
A: by considering two things: Illocutionary Force Indicating Devices and felicity conditions.