Classifying speech acts
So when doing the homework for chapter 17 I found something I disagree with concerning classifying speech acts. On the fourth exercise we are asked to classify some lexical items into as many categories to which we seem them belonging. So for "complain" I think this could be included as an Expressive because to me it does denote the speaker's psychological attitude toward a situation, event, etc. Cruse states that this "intuitively does not belong in this category." So what do you all think.
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