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Indirect Speech Acts Performatives Course Tutor Prof. Ahmed Q. Abed, PhD by Hind Ibrahim Ismail

Deborah Tannen's experience in Greece illustrates how indirect speech acts can convey unintended meanings. Performatives, as discussed by J.L. Austin, are declarative sentences that do not simply describe but actively change reality. Understanding sentence meaning requires considering not just truth

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