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Publication details [#9646]

Vanderveken, Daniel. 1980. Illocutionary logic and self-defeating speech acts. In Searle, John R., Ferenc Kiefer and Manfred Bierwisch, eds. Speech act theory and pragmatics. Reidel. pp. 247–272.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

illocution | logic | performative antinomy

Annotation

On the logic of self-defeating illocutionary acts, i.e. illocutionary acts that have contradictory conditions of success (e.g. an assertion of the form 'I assert that I do not make any assertion').