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If you haven't already, you might want to check out J.L. Austin (one of Searle's teachers)'s How to Do Things with Words.
in addition to those speech acts you mentioned, he give us some in gray areas. For example: verdictives (assesments, diagnoses, rankings, etc.). Are these their own class? Are they a special case of some other type of speech act?
And what about when you stub your toe? “Ouch!” What kind of speech act is that? Are you really trying to communicate something? It's more than a mere reflexive response, at least more than merely instinctual since the specific sound/word varies by culture. David Kaplan at UCLA has had some interesting things to say about this topic, if you can find any of it written down.
How about talking in your sleep? Is that a speech act? Can you really be talking if you don't know you're doing it? If you don't know, then you certainly don't intend to communicate. Isn't that part of speech? Maybe not.
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