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Publication details [#3222]

Ferrara, Alessandro. 1980. An extended theory of speech acts: Appropriateness conditions for subordinate acts in sequences. Journal of Pragmatics 4 (3) : 233–252.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

appropriateness | discourse focality | speech act | speech act sequence | speech act theory

Person as a subject

Searle, J.R.

Journal WWW

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Annotation

F. discusses the question whether the conditions of appropriateness sketched by Searle can still guarantee the appropriateness of the respective act types, when we consider them as embedded in sequences of speech acts, and when we consider the specific speech activity being carried out.