10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ILLOCUTIONARY ACT»
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Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning
What is it for a sentence to have a certain meaning? This is the question that William P. Alston, one of America's most distinguished and prolific analytic philosophers, addresses in this major contribution to the philosophy of language.
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Key Notions for Pragmatics
The illocutionary act has an illocutionary point or purpose (Searle 1979: 2–3),
corresponding to the speaker's intention that the utterance is to count as a certain
kind of act, i.e., a representation of something, an attempt to get the hearer to do ...
Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, 2009
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Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language
Even though reference is an abstraction from the total illocutionary act, it is a
separate speech act. By analogy, moving the knight is an abstraction from
playing chess (because it only counts as moving the knight if you are playing
chess), but it ...
4
Essays in Speech
Act Theory
I have performed the illocutionary act of asking Ruth whether she wants a glass
of water. An illocutionary act, then, as J.L. Austin has taught us, is an act that we
perform in saying something, an act which can be made explicit by the use of an
...
Daniel Vanderveken, Susumu Kubo, 2002
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Using Language: The Structures of Speech Acts
But it is not either true or false.) An illocutionary act in which the sentence used (
as used) can appropriately be evaluated in terms of truth and falsity is a
propositional act. Assertions are propositional acts, whether they are confident or
hesitant.
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Speech
Act And Linguistic Communication
already noted, perlocutionary, but not illocutionary acts, essentially involve the
production of some effect (2) An illocutionary act, unlike the perlocutionary act,
requires a locutionary act as a base I can get you to pass the salt by simply
looking ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Pragmatics
See also locutionary act; perlocutionary act; explicit illocutionary act; direct
illocutionary act; literal illocutionary act; direct illocution. illocutionary act potential
(IAP) A view put forward by the American philosopher William Alston. According
to ...
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Foundations of
Illocutionary Logic
The degree of complexity of an illocutionary act can be measured by the length of
its formulation in canonical notation, i.e. by the number of occurrences of — 1 , &
and => within its canonical representation. On this criterion, elementary ...
John R. Searle, Daniel Vanderveken, 1985
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Speaking Back: The Free Speech Versus Hate Speech Debate
Austin's second type of speech-act is the "illocutionary" (Austin 1975:94-101).
When an act is performed in the saying of an utterance, a speaker performs an
illocutionary act. For example, if someone shouts "fire" and, by making that
utterance, ...
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Speech Acts in Argumentative Discussions: A Theoretical ...
An additional complication here is that it has not yet even been established
whether argumentation is actually, like those speech acts for which analyses are
already available, an illocutionary act. Moreover, speech acts are generally
analysed ...
F. H. van Eemeren, Robert Grootendorst, 1984
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Is climate denialism postmodern?
But make no mistake, for him, denying climate change is what John Austin called an “illocutionary act” — it's a reaffirmation of his affiliation with ... «Grist Magazine, Mar 11»
