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Publication details [#20592]
Meggle, Georg. 1985. To hell with speech act theory. In Franck, Dorothea. Sentences in conversational turns: A case of syntactic `double bind'. In : 233–245. : 205–211.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
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Annotation
The author examines the possibilities of Speech Act Theory to serve as the basic theoretical framework for a theory of meaning-in-use. It is argued that it is not an adequate theory in this regard.