Illocutionary Acts And Sentence Meaning -

Alston expands on the work of J.L. Austin and John Searle, categorizing illocutionary acts into five primary types:

Acts like stating, describing, or predicting that something is the case. Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning

Meaning is determined by a sentence's potential to play the role a speaker intended. Alston expands on the work of J