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Propositional Structure and Illocutionary Force: A Study of the Contribution of Sentence Meaning to Speech Acts.

The Philosophical Review, 1983
This book offers a new theory of the structure of propositions, which provides a uniform treatment of constative and performative sentences. Jerrold Katz shows that performatives can enter into logically valid arguments, even though, as Austin claimed, they can't be true or false.
Robert M. Harnish, Jerrold J. Katz
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Analysis of Illocutionary Acts and Interrogative Meaning in the Hadith of Arba'in Nawawi: A Balaghah Study

Arabiyyatī: Journal of Arabic Language Education
Abstract This research examines illocutionary speech acts and interrogative meaning in the Hadith of Arba'in Nawawi from the perspective of balaghah science. The aim is to understand the meaning and message of the Prophet Muhammad SAW through interrogative sentences (istifham) in the hadith.
Maman Abdurrahman
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A semantic metalanguage for the description and comparison of illocutionary meanings

Journal of Pragmatics, 1986
Abstract In this paper, the author argues that the illocutionary force of an utterance constitutes an integral part of its meaning. She proposes a unified descriptive framework which makes it possible to integrate illocutionary analysis with the syntax and semantics in the narrower sense of these terms.
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Qualificational meanings, illocutionary signals, and the cognitive planning of language use

Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 2008
This paper aims to show how a clear perspective on the cognitive systems and processes involved in language production can help to solve a number of persistent problems in the analysis of TAM and related categories, and particularly of the semantic categories of deontic modality, volition, intention and directivity, notions which raise the issue of the
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Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning

The Philosophical Review, 2002
Mandy Simons, William P. Alston
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2. Grammatical voice and illocutionary meaning in an aural concept formation task.

1980
A conjunctive concept formation experiment randomly presented, as aural stimuli, sentences which were systematically varied in Voice (active or passive), Mood (declarative or interrogative), Modality (affirmative or negative), tensel aspect, and lexical content.
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Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning

Philosophia Christi, 2001
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Illocutionary-act-type sensitivity and discursive sequence: An examination of quotation

Intercultural Pragmatics, 2022
Etsuko Oishi
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Illocutionary force: encoding utterance meaning and function through time

In this chapter we investigate the relevance of diachronic research to the mapping between form and interpretation in the realization of illocutionary acts, that is, the communicative actions achieved through the production of an utterance. Discussing the complex relation between sentence mood (verb positioning) and verbal mood, as well as the ...
Roland Hinterholzl, Nicola Munaro
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Illocutionary relativism

SynthÈse, 2023
Casey Rebecca Johnson
exaly