In speech act theory, utterances are analyzed not for their truth value—the predominant obsession of philosophers of language up to that point—but instead as actions that are undertaken by people in physical and social contexts—actions that have particular preconditions and effects. 📰 Language Models Can Only Write Poetry
Every utterance has three components: locutionary act (the sounds made by the mouth, or marks on the page); illocutionary force (what the utterance is intended to do); perlocutionary effect (what happens as a result of the utterance