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Grewendorf, Günther. 1972. Sprache ohne Kontext: Zur Kritik der performativen Analyse. In Wunderlich, Dieter, ed. Linguistische Pragmatik. Athenäum Verlag. pp. 144–182.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
German

Annotation

Some attempts to incorporate the illocutionary character of utterances into a generative analysis of sentences, especially the performative hypothesis, are criticized for losing sight of the distinction between sentences and utterances: the illocutionary force of an utterance depends on its context, and the illocutionary force assigned to a sentence in its deep structure cannot exhaust its illocutionary act potential.