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Récanati, François. 1980. Some remarks on explicit performatives, indirect speech acts, locutionary meaning and truth-value. In Searle, John R., Ferenc Kiefer and Manfred Bierwisch, eds. Speech act theory and pragmatics. Reidel. pp. 205–220. 
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
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It is argued that in saying 'I promise' performatively, one does not perform an illocutionary act of assertion: what one performs besides the illocutionary act of promising is a locutionary act, the locutionary act of 'saying that'.