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Introduction to Cognitive Pragmatics
Klaus-Uwe Panther
[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice 4] 2022
► pp. 109–138

Chapter 6
Talking as action

Speech act theory

Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Folk and expert models of action
    • 2.1Talk as deficient action
    • 2.2An expert model of linguistic action: Speech act theory
  • 3.Some examples of infelicitous illocutionary acts (Austin)
  • 4.Searle’s speech act theory
    • 4.1Introduction
    • 4.2Felicity conditions and illocutionary types according to Searle
    • 4.3Illocutionary types
    • 4.4Distinguishing between illocutionary force and illocutionary verbs
  • 5.Coding illocutionary force and propositional content
    • 5.1Introduction
    • 5.2Illocutionary force and propositional content coding: Mood and constituent order
    • 5.3Illocutionary force coding
      • 5.3.1Performative verbs
      • 5.3.2Performatively used nominal expressions
    • 5.4Propositional content coding
  • 6.Illocutionary scenarios and their components
    • 6.1Introduction
    • 6.2Assertives
    • 6.3Commissives
    • 6.4Directives
    • 6.5Expressives
    • 6.6Declarations
  • 7.Conclusion