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In this chapter, we have presented an approach to pragmatics that is in a sense antagonistic to the truth-functional approach to meaning seen in Chapter 1, since it sees the purpose of language as “doing things.” However, from another perspective it is totally compatible with it, given that it sees an utterance as expressing a proposition along with an illocution, that is, the speech act. As we will see in Chapter 7, this is a common approach to the description of stance. We have considered in detail the mechanisms that make speech acts work, that is, felicity conditions and indirect speech acts, that is, the ways in which a speaker says one thing but means another one. This required us to introduce the concept of “implicature,” which will be a central topic of the next chapter. However, before we turn to this subject, we need to address the ways in which research in speech acts has been applied in teaching and SLA.