Since Austin and Searle raise their own speech act theories, linguists have done agreat deal of research on the speech acts of requests, apologies, compliments, andrefusals.

• 自Austin 和Searle 先后提出各自的言语行为理论以来,语言学家已对言语行为中的请求、道歉、称赞、拒绝等做过较为详尽的研究。