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Auwera, Johan van der. 1979. Direct speech acts. In Velde, Marc Van de and Willy Vandeweghe, eds. Bedeutung, Sprechakte und Texte: Akten des 13. Linguistischen Kolloquiums, Gent 1978, Band 2. M. Niemeyer. pp. 295–303.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

illocution | illocutionary force indicating device

Annotation

Examination of the thesis that for a speech act to be direct it is necessary and sufficient that there is a formal characteristic of the speech act explicitly indicating the illocutionary type.