ABSTRACT
Speech acts are a core notion in John Searle's oeuvre and in Austin. From Austin's work, Searle specifies five types of speech acts which he assumes cover all possible speech acts. The basic element in speech acting is the locution, a particular way of using words: a word or phrase. Human rationality unfolds in gaps, searching for and finding reasons for acting. Reasoning is constituted in language, in our ability to conceptually represent things in the world, in holding beliefs and in making plans for future actions. Speech acting describes a process that can constitute and create new institutional facts and a process that must unfold before those facts materialize. For reasons of access to data, a transposition of the processes of speech acting, explicated earlier as findings in the Social Ontology Project, is made to the processes of struggle between publicly known narratives competing for a constitutional role in organizing a task.
