From the text do:

Exercise I, p. 7; Exercise V, pp. 16-17; Exercise VI, p. 21.

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Exercise I, p. 7:

Using the thereby test as described above, indicate which of the following sentences express explicit performatives (EP) and which do not express explicit performatives.

1.        I resign from this rotten club.

2.        Pierre is the capital of South Dakota.

3.        I order you to leave.

4.        I own the World Trade towers.

5.        I claim this land for Queen Victoria. (Said by an explorer.)

6.        I'm out of gas.

7.        Get lost!

8.        I bring you official greetings from the Socialist Party of Finland.

9.        Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.

10.      I feel devastated.

Exercise V, pp. 16-17:

Indicate whether each of the following verbs primarily names an illocutionary act, a perlocutionary act, or neither. Assume a standard context. Explain your answers. (Remember that, for example, the verb phrase "to put someone on their guard" names a perlocutionary act, even when one cannot put someone on their guard without simultaneously performing an illocutionary act of warning.)

1.        inform

2.        deny

3.        alert

4.        fire (from a job)

5.        praise

6.        convince

7.        whistle

8.        pledge

9.        frighten

10.      advise

11.      blame

12.      enlighten

13.      conclude

14.      challenge

15.      amuse

16.      condemn

Exercise VI, p. 21:

People often say things so that they can conversationally implicate something else. Assume a natural conversational setting: what might a person intend to conversationally implicate by making the following remarks? Briefly explain why each of these conversational implicatures holds: that is, explain the relationship between what the speaker literally says and what he intends to convey.

1.        It's getting a little chilly in here.

2.        The crowd didn't actually throw bottles at him. (Said of a popular singer.)

3.        You can trust him if you want to.

4.        I got here before he did. (Said in a queue for tickets.)

5.        Well, he hasn't been sent to jail yet.

6.        There are planes leaving every day for China. (Said to a student radical.)

7.        These sweet potatoes are very filling.

8.        The West wasn't won with a registered gun.