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Harder, Peter. 1978. Language in action: Some arguments against the concept 'illocutionary'. Papers from the Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics 4 : 193–197.
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Article in journal
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English
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H. does not accept a 'natural' level of illocutionary description such as that of the traditional speech act types. The force of any speech act should be recognized as highly individual, resulting from quite a number of sub-acts (i.e. linguistic choices in a definite context). Speech acts should, accordingly, be described indirectly in terms of their relevant parts.