Speech Acts¶
Searle, J. R. (1969). Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge University Press.
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Primes¶
- Commitment
- In speech-act theory and pragmatics, the commissive class — promise, vow, oath, undertaking — is exactly the class that creates commitments, and tracking each party's standing commitments is central to pragmatic inference.
This sourceDefines the commissive class of speech acts — promises and undertakings that commit the speaker to a future course of action.
- In speech-act theory and pragmatics, the commissive class — promise, vow, oath, undertaking — is exactly the class that creates commitments, and tracking each party's standing commitments is central to pragmatic inference.
- Performativity
- Searle (1969) systematized these conditions as constitutive rules of the form "X counts as Y in context C," making explicit that the act's force depends not on correspondence to facts but on satisfaction of background conventions.
This sourceSystematizes constitutive rules of the form "X counts as Y in context C," grounding illocutionary force in satisfaction of background conventions rather than correspondence to antecedent facts.
- Searle (1969) systematized these conditions as constitutive rules of the form "X counts as Y in context C," making explicit that the act's force depends not on correspondence to facts but on satisfaction of background conventions.
- Speech Act Theory (Illocution, Perlocution)
- John Searle's Speech Acts (1969) systematized the framework,
This sourceSystematizes constitutive rules of the form "X counts as Y in context C," grounding illocutionary force in satisfaction of background conventions rather than correspondence to antecedent facts.
- John Searle's Speech Acts (1969) systematized the framework,
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