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According to Searle’s classification of illocutionary acts, to ask someone to pass a book is a directive, and to advise someone to watch less TV is not a directive.

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According to Austin’s classification of perlocutionary acts, speech acts fall into five general categories, which are representatives, directives, commissives, expressives and declarations.

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Stating, believing, swearing and hypothesizing are among the most typical of the representatives.

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Speech act theory aims to answer the question "What do we do when using language?".

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Speech act theory was originated with the British philosopher John Searle in the late 50's of the 20th century.

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John Searle made a distinction between what he called “constatives”and “performatives”

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All illocutionary acts that belong to the same category share the same purpose or the same illocutionary point. 

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The five types of general categories of speech acts distinguished by John Austin are representatives, directives, commissives, expressives and declarations.

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“I have never seen the man before” is a typical example of the class of expressives.

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The utterance meaning of a sentence varies with the c in which it is uttered. 

If a sentence is regarded as what people actually utter in the course of communication, it becomes a(n)（ ）

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U meaning is the realization of the abstract meaning of a sentence in a real situation of communication, or simply in a context.

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Utterance is based on sentence meaning; it is the realization of the abstract meaning of a sentence in a real situation of communication.

The following interpretations of the sentence "I am still young" are all typical instances of its pragmatic analysis EXCEPT "（ ）"

（）meaning is the realization of the abstract meaning of a sentence in a real situation of communication. It is concrete and context-dependent. 

The （）meaning of a sentence varies with the context in which it is uttered. For example, "My bag is heavy" could be uttered by a speaker as a straightforward statement, telling the hearer that his bag is heavy. It could also be intended by the speaker as an indirect, polite request, asking the hearer to help him carry the bag.

While the meaning of a sentence is abstract, and decontextualized, the meaning of a(n) （ ）is concrete, and context-dependent.

The meaning of a sentence varies with the context in which it is said.（请在横线上填完整单词，此处空白处单词开头字母为“u”）

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There are two aspects to sentence meaning: lexical meaning and semantic meaning.

Directions: Explain the following terms, using one or two examples for illustration.

commissives