Discussion
According to J.L. Austin the "locationary act" is the act of
Answer: A
According to Austin the locutionary act is the act of saying something grammatically and meaningfully, option A (the paper prints locationary). It is the act of uttering a sentence with a sense and a reference.
Doing something in making the utterance (option B) is the illocutionary act, such as promising or warning, and doing something by saying something (option C) is the perlocutionary act, such as persuading. Option D, all the above, would merge the three acts, which Austin distinguishes in How to Do Things with Words.
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