ON SPEECH ACT VERBS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. WHAT ARE SPEECH ACT VERBS ? -- 1.0 Introduction -- 1.1 Speech act verbs and their grammatical behavior -- 1.2 The performativity continuum -- 1.3 Summary -- 2. WHY BOTHER ABOUT SPEECH ACT VERBS ? -- 2.0 Introduction -- 2.1 Some reasons to study speech acts -- 2.2 Some faits divers -- 2.3 Some reasons to study speech act verbs -- 2.4 Summary. -- 3. HOW TO ANALYSE SPEECH ACT VERBS -- 3.0 Introduction -- 3.1 The unifying feature of speech act verbs -- 3.2 Some evidence -- 3.3 The magical formula -- 3.4 Some stuffing for the formula -- 3.5 Summary -- 4. HOW TO ACCOUNT FOR THE NON-TYPICAL CASES -- 4.0 Introduction -- 4.1 The problem illustrated -- 4.2 A possible solution -- 4.3 Summary -- 5. CONCLUSION -- FOOTNOTES -- REFERENCES -- The series PRAGMATICS & BEYOND series.