According to Searle’s classification of illocutionary acts, promising, swearing and vowing are the most typical cases of commissives.

Please define competence and performance respectively and describe their differences.

According to John Austin, what are the three acts a speaker might be performing simultaneously while speaking? And give examples to illustrate them.

language centers

interlanguage

utterance meaning

language standardization

coinage

root

linguistic context

AUX-movement