 Hello, do you know what a speech act is? Well, this unit tells you all about it. It discusses the basic implications of speech act theory, one of the most influential approaches in pragmatics. It looks at the basic concepts for the categorization of speech acts and discusses the conditions necessary to realize a speech act. In the virtual session we will look at John Austin's and John Searle's foundations of speech act theory. We will discuss the central felicity conditions for speech acts, we will categorize speech acts and we will find out the differences between direct and indirect speech acts. As usual you can use the question sheet with its hyperlinks for guidance. The mastery worksheet is a dynamic multiple choice task about speech acts where the choices are presented successively. Should be easy after going through the virtual session. Well, and the practical provides you with many utterances and dialogues where you can test your intuitions and deepen your knowledge about speech acts. So, have fun.