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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 ...
exaly   +3 more sources

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
Marina Sbisa, Sbisa Marina
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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,
M. Green
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Illocution, attitudes and prosody

open access: yes, 2014
Through the analysis of an audio-visual corpus of Brazilian Portuguese prosodic attitudes, this paper describes the effect of attitude category on the prosodic realization of sentences. Attitudes that directly address the propositional content of utterances, which in fact correspond to new illocutions, were found to induce more changes in the acoustic ...
Moraes, João Antônio, Rilliard, Albert
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Illocution and Interlocution

open access: yes, 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.
Richard Moran
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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
exaly   +2 more sources

AN ANALYSIS OF ILLOCUTION SPEECH IN STUDENT COMMUNICATION AT MA'HAD AL JAMI 'AH HASYIM ASY 'ARI UNIVERSITY (PRAGMATIC STUDY OF JOHN ROGERS SEARLE))

Jurnal Disastri, 2023
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Lilik Faizah Lilik Faizah   +1 more
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OBSERVING ILLOCUTION IN E-COMIC STRIP THE ADVENTURE OF TINTIN AND ITS IMPLICATION IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING DURING THE PANDEMIC

Jurnal Ilmu Bahasa, Sastra dan Pengajarannya, 2022
This research is about the direct and indirect directive and commissive illocution in The Adventure of Tintin movie. The aims of this research are to analyze direct and indirect directive and commissive illocution; to describe the application of teaching
E. Masykuri, Rofiq Nurhadi
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The distance between illocution and perlocution: A tale of different pragmemes to call for social distancing in two cities

Intercultural Pragmatics, 2022
On the basis of Mey’s Pragmatic Act Theory, this paper investigates the cross-cultural and cross-language variations in the pragmemes to call for social distancing in public health campaigns to combat COVID-19.
Xiaowen Wang, K. Ahrens, Chu-Ren Huang
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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