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A classification of illocutionary acts
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This article defined five basic kinds of illocutionary acts: representatives (or assertives), directives, commissives, expressives, and declarations, and constructed a taxonomy of them.Abstract:
There are at least a dozen linguistically significant dimensions of differences between illocutionary acts. Of these, the most important are illocutionary point, direction of fit, and expressed psychological state. These three form the basis of a taxonomy of the fundamental classes of illocutionary acts. The five basic kinds of illocutionary acts are: representatives (or assertives), directives, commissives, expressives, and declarations. Each of these notions is defined. An earlier attempt at constructing a taxonomy by Austin is defective for several reasons, especially in its lack of clear criteria for distinguishing one kind of illocutionary force from another. Paradigm performative verbs in each of the five categories exhibit different syntactical properties. These are explained. (Speech acts, Austin's taxonomy, functions of speech, implications for ethnography and ethnology; English.)read more
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Austin on locutionary and illocutionary acts
TL;DR: The authors make a distinction between illocutionary acts and propositional acts and show how these questions bear on some of the larger philosophical issues, such as the nature of statements, the way truth and falsehood relate to statements, and the way what sentences mean relates to what speakers mean when they utter sentences.