Speech Act Theory Three kinds of Acts: 1)locutionary act(说话行为)：the utterance of a sentence with determinate sense and reference; 2)illocutionary act(行事行为)：the making of a statement,. offer,promise,etc.in uttering a sentence,by virtue of the conventional force associated with it; 3)perlocutionary act(取效行为)：the bringing about of effects on the audience by means of uttering the sentence,such effects being special to the circumstances of utterance.Three kinds of Acts: 1) locutionary act (说话行为): the utterance of a sentence with determinate sense and reference; 2) illocutionary act (行事行为): the making of a statement, offer, promise, etc. in uttering a sentence, by virtue of the conventional force associated with it; 3) perlocutionary act (取效行为): the bringing about of effects on the audience by means of uttering the sentence, such effects being special to the circumstances of utterance. Speech Act Theory