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Publication details [#26652]

Leilich, Joachim. 1993. Intentionality, speech acts and communicative action: A defense of J. Habermas' & K.O. Apel's criticism of Searle. Pragmatics 3 (2) : 155–170.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

intention | speech act theory

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

ISBN

1018-2101

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This paper confronts Searle's own elaboration of speech act theory in his book INTENTIONALITY (1983) with the interpretation and critiques of the Frankfurt pragmatists Apel and Habermas. The main point of discussion is Searle's claim that intention is logically prior to speech acts.