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Holdcroft, David. 1978. Words and deeds: Problems in the theory of speech acts. Oxford University Press. xi + 175 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English

Annotation

H. discusses Austin, Searle and Schiffer. He argues that illocutionary acts are only partially determined semantically and he proposes a contextual theory of illocutionary force and acts.

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