Publications

Publication details [#2565]

Davison, Alice. 1979. On the semantics of speech acts. Journal of Pragmatics 3 (5) : 413–429.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adverbial | language change | performative verb | speech act

Journal WWW

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Annotation

Two means of defining the semantics of performative verbs are offered: (i) synchronic co-occurrences between speech acts and modifying adverbial clauses; and (ii) patterns of historical change in the meaning and syntactic features of performative verbs.