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Publication details [#10406]

Zuber, Ryszard. 1979. Note on sign transparency and performatives. Semiotica 28 (3-4) : 327–331.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

performative | transparency

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

Z. argues that performatives do not conform to the sign transparency principle, which says that when uttering a sentence our attention is directed not to the sentence but to the event, state, etc. described by it.