I Performatives and Constatives 1
II Conditions for Happy Performatives 12
III Infelicities:Misfires 25
IV Infelicities:Abuses 39
V Possible Criteria of Performatives 53
VI Explicit Performatives 67
VII Explicit Performative Verbs 83
VIII Locutionary,Illocutionary,and Perlocutionary Acts 94
IX Distinctions between Illocutionary and Perlocutionary Acts 109
X ‘In saying…’v.‘By saying…’ 121
XI Statements,Performatives,and Illocutionary Force 133
XII Classes of Illocutionary Force 148
