... apologizing, challenging, complaining, condoling, congratulating, declining, giving permission, giving way, greeting, leave-taking, mocking, naming, offering, praising, promising, proposing marriage, ... protesting, recommending, thanking. In saying: ―I’m grateful to you for all you have done for me‖ performs the illocutionary act of thanking. Illocutionary acts form a kind of social coinage, a ... all parties have an area of communicative commonality. They are auditory means, such as speaking, singing and sometimes tone of voice, and nonverbal, physical means, such as body language,...