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Publication details [#10312]

Yanofsky, Nancy M. and Rose Maclaran. 1980. Remarks on performativity. CUNY Forum 7 (8) : 237–247.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

explicit performative | indirect speech act | modal verb | performative verb

Annotation

An attempt to deal with the speech act nature of utterances in which a performative verb is preceeded by a modal: are these explicit performatives, or are they indirect speech acts?