The paper focuses on the problem of age-related conversations which are analyzed from the point of viewof their speech acts characteristics. Such types of speech acts as expressives, direct and indirect representatives,directives and commissives have been specified from the viewpoint of their illocutionary subtypes on the criteriaof "hedged-unhedged", "direct-indirect", "idiomatic-inferential", "actual-pseudo". The paper reveals and describesthe most and less frequently used types of speech acts.RésuméThe paper focuses on the problem of age-related conversations specified from the viewpoint of theirillocutionary properties. The research aims at the identification of speech acts regularly used to describeand characterize age; such acts specification according to multifaceted criteria: "hedged / unhedged","direct / indirect", "idiomatic / inferential", as well as introducing the category of pseudo-speech act.Based on in-depth analysis of age-related dialogues collected from English-based literary discourseand applying the integrative method of research, which involves speech acts explanatory tools, form /function pragmatics and face and politeness approach, the paper has three major findings.Age meanings and age-related situations in the dialogues of the characters are most regularlyspecified by speech acts of direct representatives (both simple and complex) with assertive illocutionof statements about the age and age-associated behavioural stereotypes. Direct and indirect expressivesrepresent the second type of age-associated speech acts in the characters' conversations. Expressiveillocutionary force conveys emotional and evaluative attitudes of speakers regarding their own and other'sage, the processes of aging and adulthood, as well as the difference in age. Less frequent are directiveswith the illocutionary force of advice, suggestion or prohibition related the age-associated behaviourof the addressee. The least frequent group includes indirect commissives and pseudo-commissives.The identified direct directives differ in their formal-structural markers of illocutionary force,correlating with unhedged face threatening acts, appropriate in close relationships, and with hedgednegative politeness strategies to lessen the damaged effect of age-related matters. Indirect directivesare differentiated into idiomatic and inferentional subtypes, which correlate with degree of theirimplicitness and context-boundness. The paper coins and justifies the term "pseudo-commissives",designating the acts with illocution of promise that the speaker is not able to fulfill.