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Publication details [#6850]

Mittwoch, Anita. 1977. How to refer to one's own words: Speech-act modifying adverbials and the performative analysis. Journal of Linguistics 13 (2) : 177–189.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

illocution | meaning modification | metalinguistic marker | performative hypothesis | sentence adverbial

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Annotation

M. claims that two sets of data about sentence adverbials (i.e. adverbials such as 'frankly' which do not modify the propositional content but the speech act value) which have been adduced to support the performative analysis actually disconfirm it. Alternative descriptions are suggested.