Having your head slowly sliced off of your body is a speech act, is it?
One way to begin to answer that is to see that terrorism is a speech act.
I can thank you by saying "Thank you," and it is widely agreed that thanking is a speech act.
(11) Not particularly convinced about verbal for "guarantee", though it is a speech act process and can be followed by a clause complement, so that seems reasonable evidence.
Refusing is a speech act, but if large enough numbers of men deny uptake (with such thoughts as, "By 'no' she really means 'yes'," etc).
My act is, more precisely, an abuse because although it is a speech act, it fails to live up to a standard appropriate for speech acts of its kind.
Similarly, asking who is at the door is a speech act, but it does not seem to have either of the directions of fit we have thus far mentioned.
An assertion is a speech act in which something is claimed to hold, for instance that there are infinitely many prime numbers, or, with respect to some time t, that there is a traffic congestion on Brooklyn Bridge at t, or, of some person x with respect to some time t, that x has a tooth ache at t.
Presumably, the idea was that a speech act type is conventional just if there exists a convention by which an utterance of a sentence of a certain kind ensures (if uptake is secured) that a speech act of that type is performed.
A declaration is again a speech act, but it was the content of the speech that brought the case within the scope of the Free Exercise Clause.
