... asking, begging, dismissing, excusing,forbidding, instructing, ordering, permitting, requesting, requiring, suggesting,urging, warning .Commissives: agreeing, guaranteeing, inviting, offering, ... confirming, conjecturing, denying, disagreeing,disclosing, disputing, identifying, informing, insisting, predicting, ranking,reporting, stating, stipulating .Directives: advising, admonishing, ... people how things are, the point of promises and vows is to commit the speaker to doing something Each ofthese points or purposes we will call the illocutionary point of the correspondingact We...