... Illocutionary act Illocutionary are acts defined by social conventions, acts such as accosting, accusing, admitting, apologizing, challenging, complaining, condoling, congratulating, declining, ... decodes the message and gives the sender a feedback. Communication requires that all parties have an area of communicative commonality. They are auditory means, such as speaking, singing and sometimes ... 104-05), the act of apologizing is a convivial speech act, the goal of which coincides with the social goal of maintaining harmony between speaker and hearer. Apologies have the effect of paying...