" The distinction between "central" and "non-central" kinds of these entities is the basis of H.P. Grice's theory of implicature.
The restricted set of these entities studied by English-language philosophers was attributed to a lack of metapragmatic awareness and attacked in "Cultural prerequisites" by Michael Silverstein. One type of these intangible things can be classified according to their "conditions of satisfaction" and "direction of fit." The distinction between "central" and "non-central" kinds of these entities is the basis of H.P. Grice's theory of implicature. The book that popularized this term begins by claiming that philosophy had previously only been interested in a "constative" kind of these entities, which are contrasted with a kind of these entities that can only be (*) "felicitous" or "infelicitous." The theory of these things was attacked in Derrida's Limited Inc. One of these entities can have both "primary" and "secondary" functions if they are "indirect," according to John Searle. For 10 points, name these kinds of utterances that were divided into "locutionary," "illocutionary," and "perlocutionary" in How to Do Things With Words, by J.L. Austin. 
The restricted set of these entities studied by English-language philosophers was attributed to a lack of metapragmatic awareness and attacked in "Cultural prerequisites" by Michael Silverstein.
speech acts [accept any more specific kind of speech act; accept illocution; prompt on answers like "statements," "expressions," or "utterances" but anti-prompt on "performative utterances," "performatives," etc.] 