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He classifies 5 functions of speech acts, namely: assertive, directive, commissive, expressive, and declarative.
The five basic kinds of illocutionary acts are: representatives (or assertives), directives, commissives, expressives, and declarations.
Explicature: A term used in relevance theory to describe the explicitly communicated proposition. Explicatures are developments (via reference assignment, disambiguation, and pragmatic enrichment) of the linguistically encoded content of the utterance. They can combine with contextual assumptions to yield implicatures.
Relevance theorists describe explicatures as developments of logical forms, whereas I think of implicitures as expansions or completions of semantic contents (depending on whether or not the sentences semantic content amounts to a proposition).
There are five types of speech acts that define the various purposes of speech. The categories of speech acts are assertives, directives, commissives, expressives, and declarations.

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Speech acts are verbal actions that accomplish something: we greet, insult, compliment, plead, flirt, supply information, and get work done. Representatives: assertions, statements, claims, hypotheses, descriptions, suggestions. Commissives: promises, oaths, pledges, threats, vows.
If the speaker was your flat-mate and you had a habit of borrowing her property without permission, she might be asking you if youd borrowed the book she owned (explicature) and the utterance might be taken as a demand for its return.
Speech acts are verbal actions that accomplish something: we greet, insult, compliment, plead, flirt, supply information, and get work done.

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