Publications

Publication details [#30493]

Sbisà, Marina. 2002. Speech acts in context. Language & Communication 22 (4) : 421–436.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | illocution | perlocution | speech act | speech act theory

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This paper argues for an Austin-inspired conception of speech acts as context-changing social actions and examines this role by differentiating between the illocutionary and the perlocutionary dimension.