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Publication details [#23815]

Bach, Kent and Robert Harnish. 1992. How performatives work: A reply to John Searle. Linguistics and Philosophy 15 (1) : 93–110.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

explicit performative | indirect speech act

Person as a subject

Searle, J.R.

Journal WWW

www.kluweronline.com/

Annotation

As opposed to Searle (1990:'How performatives work'), Bach and Harnish maintain that the performativity of explicit performative utterances does not require a special explanation: their communicative succes has essentially the same kind of explanation as standard indirect speech acts.