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(ordering or requesting)
(questioning)
(explicit performatives)
The primary illocutionary act is the indirect one, which is not literally performed.
The secondary illocutionary act is the direct one, performed in the literal utterance of the sentence.
For example:
"We should leave for the show or else we’ll be late."
"I am not ready yet."
Searle has introduced the notion of an 'indirect speech act', which in his account is meant to be, more particularly, an indirect 'illocutionary' act.
Illocutionary act: the extra meaning of the utterance produced on the basis of its literal meaning
For example:
Speech act theory proposed by "John.L. Austin" and has been developed by "J. R. Searle".
They believe that language is not only used to inform or to describe things, it is often used to “do things”, to perform acts.
For example:
"You’re fired"
“There is a policeman on the corner”
A major problem for both:
Indirect speech acts are commonly used to reject proposals and to make requests.
For example, a speaker asks,
"Would you like to meet me for coffee?"
and another replies,
"I have class."