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Lakoff, George. 1972. Performative antinomies. Foundations of Language 8 (4) : 569–572.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English

Annotation

L. suggests that to make sense of performative antinomies such as 'Don't obey this order' or 'I warn you that I won't carry out this threat' one must extend the assignment of truth values to the assignment of felicity values to sentences.