... purpose of communicating are called “speech acts”. In English, they are commonly given such specific labels as apologizing, complaining, requesting, inviting, informing, complimenting or promising ... Oxford philosopher, J. L. Austin in 1930s and was expounded in a series of lectures which he gave at Hardvard in 1955. In his book How to do things with words, Austin argues that when we use ... perform when we speak – such as agreeing, complaining, requesting, apologizing, promising, approving, informing and so on. Austin believes that a single speech act actually contains three separate...