A Theoretical Research of Illocutionary Force within a Framework of a General Theory of Speech Acts

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In order to develop a general theory of speech acts'we need a way to characterize force and content of illocutionary acts in general. We have tobe able to characterize not only statements, reports, claims, etc.but also orders, requests, promises, etc. I have developped a theory of content by generalizing the so-called Austinian account of truth. An illocutionary Act is said to be satisfied when the situation to which it is connected by the demonstarative conventions is of the type which is associated with the sentence used to perform it by the descriptive conventions. Different illocutionary acts are satisfied in different ways. When satisfied, statements are true, orders are obeyed, and promises are kept. My theory of content respects this heterogeneity by treating content as hetergeneous, i.e.not force-neutral.In the present project, I have tried to develop a general theory of illocutionary force within a framework ofa general theory of action which treat action as something that changes certain features of circumstance. This framework can provide a comparative treatment of different conventional effectsof various illocutionary acts. I alsohave tried to integrate both of theseresults into a general theory of illocutionary acts by formulating hypotheses and results in the language of situation theory.