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A constructional approach to the expression of illocutionary meaning: An analysis of constructions performing the speech acts of requesting and begging

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Central Illocutionary Force and Meaning

Mind, 1977
The benefit of this distinction for Urmson is that it can be used to defend the claim made by Hare and others that the meaning of some words can be analysed in terms of the speech acts they are used to perform from the objection that not all utterances involving these words have a particular illocutionary force.
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Cognitive modeling in illocutionary meaning

Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 2011
The present contribution argues that illocutionary interpretation is not only metonymic (Panther & Thornburg, 1998, 2003), but also a matter of active zone/profile discrepancy (Langacker, 1987, 1999). The theoretical framework is the Lexical Constructional Model propounded by Ruiz de Mendoza & Mairal (2008, 2011) and Mairal & Ruiz de ...
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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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Conceptual metaphor in the complex dynamics of illocutionary meaning

Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 2015
This article aims to illustrate the role that conceptual metaphor plays in the complex dynamics of interpersonal communication, with the focus being placed upon the synergistic relationship that metaphor holds with other Idealized Cognitive Models (Lakoff, 1987) in the construction of illocutionary meaning.
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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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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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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

International Philosophical Quarterly, 2001
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