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Publication details [#20892]

Sumic-Riha, Jelica. 1991. The concept of the performative and its reality. In Janda, Laura A. The radial network of a grammatical category: Its genesis and dynamic structure. : 17–25.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
constative vs. performative

Annotation

The author questions the concept of `performative' as distinguished from 'constative', and aims at explaining how and why performatives 'work'.