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In chapter 9, The expressive speech act, we examine how expressive speech acts communicate S’s feelings about themselves or the world. Searle & Vanderveken (1985:211) find that expressive speech names expressive forces, and they argue that expressive speech acts are typically hearer centred. Therefore, expressive speech acts are public expressions of emotional states. Our discussion in this chapter includes consideration of how thanking, apologising, congratulating, greeting, amongst other expressions of emotion, are expressed in Irish. The use of expressive speech acts can be found with several types of speaker-hearer interactions.