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Introduction                                                                                               

Chapter I                Pragmatics  

Chapter II              Performative utterances  

  Speech acts

§ The 3 main types of Speech acts

§ Communicative and conventional  speech acts

§Implicature and Conversational

Implicature

Chapter III       Indirect Speech Acts

Conclusion                                                                                      

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