[单选题] According to John Austin’s speech act theory, a(n) ______ act is the act performed by saying something.

1、[判断题]The meaning of a sentence is abstract, and decontextualized, that of an utterance is concrete, and context-dependent. The meaning of an utterance is the realization of the abstract meaning of a sentence in a context.

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2、[判断题]In such sound combinations as / pɪt/, /ˈpeɪpə/ and / pleɪn/, the voiceless stop /p/, occurring in the first position, is unaspirated, i.e. pronounced with the strong puff of air withheld to some extent.

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3、[判断题]It has been found that the absence of the suffix of third-person present-tense singular form of verbs and the non-standard use of double negation like I can’t eat nothing are not correlated with the social status of the speaker.

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4、[名词解释]cultural transmission

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5、[主观题]According to Austin, what are the three acts a person is possible performing while making an utterance? Give an example.

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