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Evidentiality and illocution

open access: yesIntercultural Pragmatics, 2014
This paper attempts to show that the linguistic or discursive marking of evidentiality plays a role in the performance of illocutionary acts and that its closeness to, and difference from, the attribution of epistemic modality can be explained in the light of an analysis of their respective relations to illocution.
Marina Sbisa'
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Modalité et illocution

open access: yesCommunications (Paris 1962), 1980
Roulet Eddy. Modalité et illocution. In: Communications, 32, 1980. Les actes de discours, sous la direction de Anne-Marie Diller. pp. 216-239.
Roulet, Eddy
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Free Speech and Illocution

open access: yesLegal Theory, 1998
What one ought to mean by “speech,” in the context of discussions of free speech, is whatever it is that a correct justification of the right to free speech justifies one in protecting. What one ought to mean, it may be argued, includes illocution, in the sense of J.L. Austin.
Jennifer Hornsby, Rae Langton
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Illocution and Silencing

2009
Abstract It has been claimed by various authors that pornography subordinates and silences women. This paper discusses the related problem of how to account for a person’s being “silenced.” Considering the case of the ineffective refusal of sexual advances, various ways of explaining what goes wrong are distinguished (perlocutionary ...
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Illocution and Interlocution

2018
This chapter discusses the idea of a “second-personal stance” as developed by Darwall and others, and notes some differences with the notion of “addressing” developed here, particularly with respect to the difference between theoretical and practical reasons.
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Discussing Illocution

AbstractThis chapter expounds and discusses five challenges that have been levelled at Austin’s conception of illocution: (i) Austin’s theory holds for oral speech alone; (ii) Austin neglects the so-called ‘not serious’ uses of language; (iii) Austin is wrong in assuming that performative utterances are neither true nor false and giving priority to the
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Clause-type, primary illocution, and mood-like operators in English

open access: yesLanguage Sciences, 2006
This paper is about the semantics of English clause-types and of the subsentences (a generic term for subclauses and clause or sentence fragments) that function like clauses. The formal defining characteristics for declarative, interrogative, imperative,
Keith Allan
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Illocution and Empathy

Philosophia, 2017
Slote (‘The Many Faces of Empathy’) has argued that empathy plays a crucial role in such speech acts as questions and assertions. After clarifying some of the aims and limitations of speech act theory, providing an account of empathy and its potential epistemic value, and sketching the role that some speech acts play in expressing psychological states,
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