How to Do Things with Words: The William James Lectures Delivered at Harvard University in 1955

Performatives and constatives conditions for happy performatives infelicities - misfires infelicities - abuses possible criteria of performatives explicit performatives explicit performative verbs locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary acts distinctions between illocutionary and perlocutionary acts in saying versus by saying statements, performatives and illocutionary force classes of illocutionary force.