Offer and acceptance in contemporary speech act theory

It's not common for the domestic legal system to focus on language as it is, and the latter is often used just as a tool for holding some information. But actually, language is an independent phenomenon, and in many cases it can be the action itself. The treatment of language only as a tool for achieving goals by parties of contracts may constitute the violation of freedom of contract, its wrong interpretation, which leads to the acknowledgment that contract is not valid. The author analyzes the Speech Act Theory (SAT), tracing its roots back to English Linguophilosophy, and applies its main provisions for considering such contract's elements as «offer» and «acceptance». After the reference to felicity conditions developed for speech acts, the author proceeds with felicity conditions for contracts in the whole.