Which philosopher argued that some verbal acts do not merely state truth conditions, but actually perform an action?, Paul Grice, John Searle, John Austin, According to Austin, what must be fulfilled for a performative speech act (like a marriage declaration or a promise) to be deemed successful?, Cooperative Principles, Felicity Conditions, Indirect Illocutions, Propositional Content, According to Searle's breakdown of speech acts, the "perlocutionary act" refers to:, The actual utterance and its literal meaning., The speaker's psychological intention., The actual effect the utterance has on the hearer., The grammatical structures used by the speaker., If a speaker says, "Peter, can you open the window?" to get Peter to open the window, this is an example of:, An indirect speech act, A conventional implicature, A purely semantic locution, A flouted maxim of quality, In Searle’s classification of speech acts, which category includes verbal actions that commit the speaker to a future course of action, such as promises and oaths?, Representatives, Directives, Commissives, Expressives, What is Grice's overarching principle that states participants in a conversation generally expect each other to interact in a mutually supportive and logical way?, The Speech Act Doctrine, The Sincerity Condition, The Principle of Nondetachability, The Cooperative Principle, Which of Grice's Maxims is a speaker following when they try to only say what they believe to be true and for which they have adequate evidence?, Maxim of Quality, Maxim of Quantity, Maxim of Relation, Maxim of Manner, When a speaker intentionally and obviously violates a maxim in a conversation so that the listener will infer a hidden, added meaning, this is known as:, Opting out of communication, Misleading the listener, Breaking a felicity condition, Flouting a maxim, What type of implicature is tied directly to the timeless, conventional meaning of a specific word (such as using the word "but" to imply a contrast), rather than being inferred from a situational context?, Particularized conversational implicature, Generalized conversational implicature, Conventional implicature, Indirect primary illocution, According to Searle, an utterance like "I sentence you to ten years' imprisonment" falls under which category of speech acts?, Commissives, Declarations, Expressives

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