Searle classified illocutionary act into five categories. Discuss each of them in detail with examples.
【正确答案】：(1) Representatives: stating or describing, saying what the speaker believes to be true.
(2) Directives: trying to get the hearer to do something.
(3) Commissives: committing the speaker himself to some future course of action.
(4) Expressives: expressing feelings or attitude towards an existing state.
(5) Declarations: bringing about immediate changes by saying something.
