This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract There are at least a dozen linguistically significant dimensions of differences between illocutionary acts. Of these, the most important are ...
Speech Act Theory, rooted in the seminal work of Austin and further developed by Searle, investigates how language is not only used to present information but also to perform actions. This framework ...
Language in Society, Vol. 44, No. 4 (September 2015), pp. 525-552 (28 pages) J. L. Austin's influential dissection of speech acts into locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts has given ...
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