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Embedding Illocutionary Acts

2014
Speech acts have sometimes been considered as not embeddable, for principled reasons. In this paper, I argue that illocutionary acts can be embedded under certain circumstances. I provide for a semantic interpretation of illocutionary acts as functions from world/time indices to world/time indices, which provides them with a semantic type, and allows ...
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Pictorial Illocutionary Acts

1977
A picture, say of a man, can be used in an indefinite number of ways. It can be used to conjure up memories, to advertise the clothes that he wears, to inform an audience of a rare disease, or to give a visual description of the symptoms of infective hepatitis. It can be used as an object of worship, as a decoration; or again, it can be used to explain
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A classification of illocutionary acts

Language in Society, 1976
ABSTRACTThere are at least a dozen linguistically significant dimensions of differences between illocutionary acts. Of these, the most important are illocutionary point, direction of fit, and expressed psychological state. These three form the basis of a taxonomy of the fundamental classes of illocutionary acts.
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Discrimination and Illocutionary Acts

1999
In the preceding chapter, I suggested that the equal-opportunity argument in favour of hate-speech restrictions and pornography bans fails because banning hate speech and pornography does not improve communicative opportunities for vilified racial minorities or women.
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Illocutionary acts, subordination and silencing

Analysis, 2009
Rumfitt, I. 1997. The categoricity problem and truth-value gaps. Analysis 57: 223-36. Rumfitt, I. 2000. 'Yes' and 'No'. Mind 109: 781-824. Shapiro, S. 1993. Anti-realism and modality. In Philosophy of Mathematics: Proceedings of the 15th International Wittgenstein Symposium, ed. J. Czermak, 269-287. Vienna: Verlag Holder-Pichler-Tempsky.
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Communicative and Illocutionary Acts

2003
In his much discussed essay Meaning (1957) H. P. Grice chose an approach to Pragmatics which is independent of all specific terms of speech act theory and thereby not burdened with specific problems of that theory. It can remain open here as to whether this is a completely different approach: this depends upon where the core of speech act theory is ...
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Illocutionary Acts and Attitude Expression

Linguistics and Philosophy, 2003
In the classic Linguistic Communication and Speech Acts, Kent Bach and Robert M. Harnish advocated the idea that to perform an illocutionary act often just means to express certain attitudes. The underlying definition of attitude expression, however, gives rise to serious problems because it requires intentions of a peculiar kind. Recently, Wayne Davis
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Classification of intersubjective illocutionary acts

Language in Society, 1981
ABSTRACTAn illocutionary act presupposes not only a speaker, but also an other who is the intended recipient of the utterance's illocutionary force. Thus every illocutionary act has an intersubjective component; it connects two centers of experience in a particular way.
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The classification of cooperative illocutionary acts

Language in Society, 1979
ABSTRACTThe different taxonomies of illocutionary acts proposed by Austin, Searle, Vendler, Ohmann, and Fraser are compared in summary form, with Searle's taxonomy taken as a reference standard. All five of these taxonomies slight two kinds of illocutionary act: (I) illocutionary acts that combine commissive with directive illocutionary force (e.g ...
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Austin on Locutionary and Illocutionary Acts

The Philosophical Review, 1968
JN ATTEMPTING to explore Austin's notion of an illocutionary act I have found his corresponding notion of a locutionary act very unhelpful and have been forced to adopt a quite different distinction between illocutionary acts and propositional acts.2 I think this difference is more than a matter of taxonomical preference and involves important ...
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