ABSTRACT
I wrote the paper reprinted here as chapter 24 while I was teaching a course in Speech Acts at the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute in Buffalo New York in the Summer of 1971.1 presented it as a forum lecture at the Institute, and later also at conferences at the University of Minnesota and the University of Texas at Austin. The publication was delayed several years because it was promised to the University of Minnesota series in the Philosophy of Science and the editor took a great deal of time to publish the volume. The original article (Searle, 1975) has since been reprinted on a number of occasions,1 and the ideas in the taxonomy later formed the basis of a formal logic of speech acts that I wrote with Daniel Vanderveken (1985).
