in communicating with each other, human beings always perform illocutionary acts and thus satisfy needs of communication.
在人与人交往当中,人们总要实施一定的言语行为,满足一定的交际目的。
commissives: commissives are those illocutionary acts whose point is to commit the speaker to some future course of action.
承诺类的言外之力是使说话人在说出某话语时对未来行为作出承诺,承担义务。
among the three, illocutionary acts are the focus of the studies, because they are in accordance with intentions of language users.
其中,言外行为体现了语言使用者的意图,是言语行为理论和语用学研究的重点。
through the observation of the classifications of 「illocutionary acts」 by different scholars, this paper expounds the illocutionary acts of different kinds.
通过对以往语言学家对行事行为的分类的观察,阐述了不同种类的行事行为。