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Publication details [#17808]

Kasher, Asa, ed. 1998. Pragmatics: Critical Concepts. Volume II: Speech Act Theory and Particular Speech Acts. (Routledge Critical Concepts). Routledge. 557 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
Keywords
pragmatics
ISBN
0 415 16935 6

Annotation

An 28-article anthology of major publications on speech acts, addressing both general issues as well as selected topics.

Articles in this volume

Austin, John Langshaw. How to Do Things With Words. 7–26
Stenius, Erik. Mood and Language-game. 29–47
Searle, John R. The Structure of Illocutionary Acts. 48–64
Bach, Kent and Robert M. Harnish. Simple Version of the Speech Act Schema (SAS). 65–68
Davidson, Donald. Moods and Performances. 69–80
Sadock, Jerrold M. The Performative Hypothesis and its Apparent Failure. 81–86
Leech, Geoffrey N. A Set of Postulates. 87–113
Wierzbicka, Anna. The Semantics of Illocutionary Forces. 114–169
Vanderveken, Daniel. On the Logical Form of Illocutionary Acts. 170–194
Dummett, Michael. Sense, Force and Tone. 195–202
Geach, Peter T. Assertion. 209–221
Dummett, Michael. Assertion. 222–231
Stalnaker, Robert C. Assertion. 232–249
Zaefferer, Dietmar. On a Formal Treatment of Illocutionary Force Indicators. 250–265
Wilson, Deirdre and Dan Sperber. Mood and the Analysis of Non-declarative Sentences. 268–289
Belnap, Nuel. Declaratives are not Enough. 290–315
Lang, Ranier. Questions as Epistemics Requests. 316–333
Manor, Ruth. Pragmatics and the Logic of Questions and Assertions. 334–365
Holdcroft, David. Words and Deeds. 366–394
Kamp, Hans. Semantics versus Pragmatics. 395–425
Forrester, James W. Why You Should. 426–443
Bath, Katharine. Promises and Assertions. 445–469
Gilbert, Margaret. Is an Agreement and Exchange of Promises? 470–492
Austin, John Langshaw. How to Do Things With Words. 493–500
Urmson, J.O. Performative Utterances. 502–511
Récanati, François. The Pragmatics of Performative Utterances. 512–518
Searle, John R. How Performatives Work. 519–540
Bach, Kent and Robert M. Harnish. How Performatives Really Work: A Reply to Searle. 541–557

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Bar-On, Dorit. 2000. Review of $Pragmatics: Critical Concepts. Volume II: Speech Act Theory and Particular Speech Acts.