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Publication details [#3427]

Fotion, Nicholas G. 1981. I'll bet you $10 that betting is not a speech act. In Parret, Herman, Marina Sbisà and Jef Verschueren, eds. Possibilities and limitations of pragmatics. John Benjamins. pp. 211–223.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

accepting | betting | speech act | speech act sequence

Annotation

An attempt to show that betting is not a speech act but a type of speech activity typically consisting of two separate speech acts (i.e. an offer to bet such as 'I'll bet you ...' and an acceptance of the offer).