# Quote — Jurgen Habermas, The Theory of Communicative Action: Volume 1

> As medium for reaching understanding, speech acts serve: a) to establish and renew interpersonal relations, whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the world of legitimate social orders; b) to represent states and events, whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the world of existing states of affairs; c) to manifest experiences that is, to represent oneself- whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the subjective world to which he has privileged access.

- Author: [Jurgen Habermas](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jurgen-habermas.md)
- Book: [The Theory of Communicative Action: Volume 1](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jurgen-habermas/the-theory-of-communicative-action-volume-1.md)
- Page: 308
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