Add to ORKGA crucially important adequacy test of any theory of speech acts is its abilityto handle performatives. This paper provides a theory of performatives as a test case for our rationally based theory of illocutionary acts. We showwhy #I request you..."isa request, and #I lie to you that p" is self-defeating. The analysis supports and extends earlier work of theorists such as Bach and Harnish #1# and takes issue with recent claims by Searle #10# that such performative-as-declarative analyses are doomed to failure
none2In this paper we investigate the role of performative contradictions in legal discourse. First...
1. Introduction: Alston on the Normativity of Illocutionary Acts The utterance of a sentence in a co...
The aim of this paper is to analyze the „possibility puzzle” presented by Shapiro (2011) in the cont...
This essay examines J.L. Austin's theory regarding speech acts, or how we do things with words. It s...
A smattering of old issues in speech act theory needing further attention, newer ones needing seriou...
Performatives in the sense of speech act theory (SAT) have long been held for the elementary buildin...
This paper deals with the normative dimension of the states of affairs produced by the performance o...
What makes it the case that an utterance constitutes an illocutionary act of a given kind? This is ...
The conception of performative utterances proposed by John Langshaw Austin is unclear and provokes m...
Language presents a possibility of not only saying something about the world, but also of doing, cre...
This paper endorses a view of argumentation and arguments that relates both to a special type of spe...
The theory of speech acts, formulated by Austin and developed by Searle, is widely applied to analys...
Argumentation theorists need to command a clear view of the sources of the obligations that arguers ...
In contrast to Derrida and Butler, who overemphasized the subversive force of performatives, here th...
My paper deals with Searle’s account of the normative dimension involved in the performance of speec...
none2In this paper we investigate the role of performative contradictions in legal discourse. First...
1. Introduction: Alston on the Normativity of Illocutionary Acts The utterance of a sentence in a co...
The aim of this paper is to analyze the „possibility puzzle” presented by Shapiro (2011) in the cont...
This essay examines J.L. Austin's theory regarding speech acts, or how we do things with words. It s...
A smattering of old issues in speech act theory needing further attention, newer ones needing seriou...
Performatives in the sense of speech act theory (SAT) have long been held for the elementary buildin...
This paper deals with the normative dimension of the states of affairs produced by the performance o...
What makes it the case that an utterance constitutes an illocutionary act of a given kind? This is ...
The conception of performative utterances proposed by John Langshaw Austin is unclear and provokes m...
Language presents a possibility of not only saying something about the world, but also of doing, cre...
This paper endorses a view of argumentation and arguments that relates both to a special type of spe...
The theory of speech acts, formulated by Austin and developed by Searle, is widely applied to analys...
Argumentation theorists need to command a clear view of the sources of the obligations that arguers ...
In contrast to Derrida and Butler, who overemphasized the subversive force of performatives, here th...
My paper deals with Searle’s account of the normative dimension involved in the performance of speec...
none2In this paper we investigate the role of performative contradictions in legal discourse. First...
1. Introduction: Alston on the Normativity of Illocutionary Acts The utterance of a sentence in a co...
The aim of this paper is to analyze the „possibility puzzle” presented by Shapiro (2011) in the cont...