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Publication details [#4604]

Henkel, Jacqueline. 1984. Promises according to Searle: Some problems with constitutive rules. Papers from the Mid-America Linguistics Conference 1983 : 181–194.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

constitutive rule | promising | speech act theory

Person as a subject

Searle, J.R.

Annotation

H. questions the claim, inherent in Searle's speech act theory, that language behavior at the level of speech acts can be characterized with constitutive rules. An analysis of promising is presented to illustrate this.