Speech Acts by Ronald Searle
An Essay in the Philosophy of Language
Presents a systematic theory of how utterances function as actions, distinguishing sentence meaning from the illocutionary force with which they are used. It explains how promises, assertions, requests, and other performative uses of language are made possible by constitutive rules, clarifies the roles of intention, convention, and context, and analyzes the structure and conditions of satisfaction for various speech acts. The work also examines indirect speech acts and the boundary between semantics and pragmatics, offering a taxonomy of illocutionary types and showing how meaning and use interrelate in communication.
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- Published
- 1969
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 200-210
- Original Language
- English
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- Alternate Titles
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- Actos de habla
- Atti linguistici
- Les actes de langage
- Sprechakte
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