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Fauconnier, Gilles. 1979. Comment contrôler la vérité: Remarques illustrées par des assertions dangereuses et pernicieuses en tout genre. Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales 25 : 3–22.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
French

Annotation

The principles involved in speech act theory bear on the nature of symbolic acts and of social rituals. Two such principles, incorporation and reduction, are claimed to account for some paradoxical characteristics of explicit performative utterances. As an illustration, several texts written by Jesuit casuists are examined.