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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

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?