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Motsch, Wolfgang. 1980. Situational context and illocutionary force. In Searle, John R., Ferenc Kiefer and Manfred Bierwisch, eds. Speech act theory and pragmatics. Reidel. pp. 155–168.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

illocution | situation | speech act classification

Annotation

M. argues that a purely linguistic definition of types of illocutionary acts is impossible, and he sketches an approach to the specification of the information on the situational context which is part of the situational meaning of an utterance performed in a certain situation.