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Speech Acts and Unspeakable Raps
Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 42, Issue 4, Page 1378-1395, August 2025.ABSTRACT Police censor drill rap music based on the claim that drill artists incite violence. In this article, I provide a framework for evaluating whether an instance of drill constitutes a speech act of incitement. I also introduce an alternative speech act that drillers may also be performing, drawn from sociological work on drill artists.
Tareeq Jalloh
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Pragmalinguistic Aspect of Interrogative Speech Acts in Discourse of “Rig Veda”
Научный диалог, 2020 The interrogative speech acts presented in the linguistic material of the “Rig Veda” — one of the most ancient and culturally significant works that were a manifestation of ritual and mythological discourse, are researched. The language of Vedic texts is
M. A. Voronkina
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Illocution and understanding [PDF]
Inquiry, 2019 What are the connections between the successful performance of illocutionary acts and audience understanding or uptake of their performance? According to one class of proposals, audience understanding suffices for successful performance. I explain how those proposals emerge from earlier work and seek to clarify some of their interrelations.
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Nonverbal Clause Constructions
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 2, March/April 2025.ABSTRACT There are about a dozen well‐recognised types of nonverbal clause constructions, but the terminology by which these subtypes are known varies widely. This paper gives an overview of the major types and defines each term carefully, from the perspective of general syntax.
Martin Haspelmath
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 110, Issue 2, Page 497-525, March 2025.Abstract Silence can be a communicative act. Tanesini (2018) demonstrates how “eloquent” silences can virtuously indicate resistance and dissent; in this paper, I outline one way silence can also be used viciously to cause discursive harm, specifically by slurring victims. By distinguishing between eloquent and “signaling” silences (two kinds of what I
A. G. Holdier
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THE ILLOCUTION SPEECH ACT OF LUDRUK JOKO SAMBANG PENDEKAR GUNUNG GANGSIR SHOW
Lingua Didaktika: Jurnal Bahasa dan Pembelajaran Bahasa, 2017 This research analysed the utterance used in Ludruk, a traditional art originated from East Java. The utterance were used in accordance with the story performed by the artists.
Reska Luckiyanti +2 more
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Facts in the machine: Systems of record and the performance of sociotechnical truth
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 447-459, February 2025.Abstract Information systems serve as the “source of truth” for much of social reality, from credit scores to eligibility for boarding an airplane to the current time. In contexts of practical consensus, the system makes it so. I label this phenomenon system‐dependent truth. This paper advances a theory of performative truthmaking, wherein the agencies
Elliott Hauser
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Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021 This study offers an analysis into the basic techniques and tactics of constructing a performative utterance in a personally oriented discourse, as well as ways to preserve their effectiveness when translating utterances from English into Russian.
O. Kniazeva, V. Boldyreva
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The illocution-prosody relationship and the Information Pattern in spontaneous speech according to the Language into Act Theory (L-AcT) [PDF]
, 2018 This paper introduces the question of the definition of reference units for speech, correlating with the necessary condition that they must be an adequate and useful means for analyzing large spoken corpora. According to Language into Act Theory (L-AcT),
Cresti, Emanuela
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Conversational silence, reconsidered
Theoria, Volume 90, Issue 6, Page 652-668, December 2024.Abstract In ‘Conversational Pressure. Normativity in Speech Exchanges’ (2020), Sanford Goldberg discusses the significance of conversational silence, arguing that, absent certain defeating conditions, we have a general entitlement to assume that somebody who remains silent in a conversation doesn't reject what was said. Call this ‘No‐Silent‐Rejection’ (
Anna Klieber
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