41. An independent clause realises a speech act such as a statement, a question, a command or an offer. 42. He sees a sharp distinction between the individual text and the total speech act situation surrounding it. 43. The more presumed information pertaining to the request, the more indirect the speech act may be considered to be. 44. This latter way of drawing the distinction is an important part of John Searle's influential theory of speech acts . 45. Subjectification occurs in conversation ( through speech acts and has rhetorical aims, and thus implies some degree of intersubjectivity. 46. Oh, and see speech act . 47. Christian theology is therefore regarded as the interpretation of this speech act between the justifying God and the justified sinner. 48. UP shares with speech act theory, semiotics, and linguistics an interest in the details of language use and communicative action. 49. Dashes instead of quotation marks for dialogue to indicate the start of speech acts to portray the devastating conditions in South Africa. 50. Freedom of speech acts as a " safety valve " to let off steam when people might otherwise be bent on revolution.
