S. discusses several possible interpretations of Austin's 'locutionary meaning', for all of which evidence and counterevidence can be found in Austin (1962: 'How to do things with words'). Then he makes a compromise proposal to the effect that every sentence should be analyzed along the lines of the formula 'X issues the... (that...) with the force of a...' where the first blank stands for a type of locutionary meaning (e.g. proposition, imperative), the second a specific locutionary content (e.g. that S is P; that Z [person] is to Y [act]) and the third a kind of illocutionary force. Finally, S. presents some objections that Austin might have adduced and claims that they are not valid objections.