Consider the following utterance from a swimming instructor to a learner: "You shouldn't be looking at me Joseph, you should be looking out of the window." How is the modal verb should functionally interpreted here as a speech act?

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Consider the following utterance from a swimming instructor to a learner:  "You  shouldn't  be looking at me Joseph, you  should  be looking out of the window."  How is the modal verb  should  functionally interpreted here as a speech act?

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As a directive telling the listener how to act

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As an expressive apologizing for an event

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As a declaration changing a legal state

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As a commissive promising future action

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