The effect of implementing the INFORM as an utterance is then that the hearer knows whether X is true. An important feature of such a framework is that it can account for indirect speech acts (Allen and Perreault 1980). For example, question (7.1), as an indirect request for the date or day of the week, can be viewed as indicating the speaker's awareness that the hearer can perform the requested information-conveying act only if the knowledge-precondition of that act is satisfied. Furthermore, s