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Publication details [#16878]

Miller, Seumas. 2000. Speech acts and conventions. Language Sciences 22 (2) : 155–166.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

performative | speech

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0388-0001

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

In this paper I take up one of the main unresolved questions that arises from J.L. Austin's work, namely, the the question of the conventionality of speech acts. I argue that the evidence is against the existence of essentially conventional speech acts.