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Publication details [#14267]
Marcu, Daniel. 2000. Perlocutions: The Achilles' heel of speech act theory. Journal of Pragmatics 32 (12) : 1719–1741. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
A critique of (the formalizations of the effects of) perlocutions. A case is made for a data-driven approach to pragmatics and a formal theory that uses the language of situation calculus to explain differences in persuasiveness is introduced.