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In order to avoid being thoroughly ad hoc, any classification has to be principled — which holds with classifying (types of) illocutionary acts in particular. Since a theory of illocutionary acts is best seen to be a special branch of action theory in general, it seems to be clear from where the relevant principles of classification have to come from: (i) It is a general theory of action, in terms of which (basic types of) illocutionary acts are to be explicated; and, in order to be reliable, (ii) the needed principles of classification have to be derived from (the logical connections existing between) these action-theoretical explications themselves.
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Meggle, G., Ulkan, M. (2003). Informatives and/or Directives? (A New Start in Speech Act Classification). In: Preyer, G., Peter, G., Ulkan, M. (eds) Concepts of Meaning. Philosophical Studies Series, vol 92. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0197-6_5
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