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There is substantial agreement that some version of speech act theory is correct and that indeed people do things with words, such as requesting, informing, promising, threatening, and so on. Much of the developments of speech act theory have consisted of establishing a detailed account of the “mechanics” of what makes a speech act work that way. In this section we consider the components of illocutionary force and felicity conditions. As we will see, they both help answer the question, what makes a promise, a promise (a request, a request, etc.).