Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Figures; Chapter 1 Situations and Speech Acts
1.0. Introduction
1. Situations and Situation-Types
1.2 Discourse Situations
1.3 Speech Acts
1.4 Desiderata for a theory of Speech Acts; Chapter 2 Speech Acts Types
2.0. Introduction
2.1. Effect and Intentionality
2.2. Moves in Discourse Situations
2.3. Some Speech Act Types; Chapter 3 A Theory of Speech Act Interpretation
3.0. Introduction
3.1. Interpretive Constituents
3.2. Illocutionary Mode functions
3.3 Reconciliation with Context
3.4. Matching Types and Implementing Choices; Chapter 4 Speech Acts, Meaning, and Truth
4.0. Introduction
4.1. Orientation in the World
4.2. Assertion and Truth
4.3. Questions and Responses
4.4. Lies; Chapter 5 Summary and Evaluation
5.0. Introduction
5.1. The Thesis Summarized
5.2. The thesis Evaluated
5.3. Directions for Future Research; Notes; Bibliography; Appendix A; Definitions of Concepts; Appendix B: The Speech Act Types; Appendix C: The Formal Apparatus