As Wierzbicka points out, our life consists "to a phenomenal extent of speech acts. From morning to night, we ask, answer, quarrel, argue, promise, boast, scold, complain, nag, praise, thank, confide, reproach, hint… Moreover, from morning to night, we seek to interpret what other people are saying, i.e. what kind of speech acts they are performing. Virtually every time someone opens his or her mouth in our presence, we seek to categorize their utterance as this or that kind of speech act. Was this a threat? Or just a warning? Was this a suggestion or rather a request? Was this a criticism or just a casual remark? Was this a hint?" (Wierzbicka 1987:3).
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