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meaning--speaker-meaning, for example. Now we can add that here is now an illocutionary kind of meaning, force, which is not the same thing as locu- tionary meaning either. Each of these kinds of meaning is perfectly real and indispensable to language use. 3 Infelicities and constitutive rules Speech acts are conventional acts; just as any "use" theorist would have it, they are embedded in and defined by social customs, practices, and institu- tions. Their performings are governed by rules of many kinds. The rules are usually unwritten, merely implicit in normative social behavior. Searle (1965, 1969) divides speech-act rules into constitutive rules and regulative rules. (Merely) regulative rules "regulate antecedently or inde- pendently existing forms of behavior," whereas constitutive rules "create or define new forms of behavior" (1969, p. 33). Thus, for example, rules of eti-