Publications

Publication details [#8143]

Ross, John Robert. 1975. Where to do things with words. In Cole, Peter and Jerry L. Morgan, eds. Syntax and semantics, 3: Speech acts. Academic Press. pp. 233–256.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

requesting

Annotation

An attempt to formulate the conditions under which sentences like 'I want you to hand over your valuables' and 'Could you hand over your valuables' can get the force of a request.

Reprints

Rogers, Andy, Bob Wall and John P. Murphy. 1977. In Rogers, Andy, Bob Wall and John P. Murphy, eds. Proceedings of the Texas conference on performatives, presuppositions and implicatures. Center for Applied Linguistics. pp. 47–66.