Meaning and Force
The Pragmatics of Performative Utterances
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10694769 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert M Harnish, François Recanati (0000-0002-8642-2954) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 297 |
| Publication date | 1991-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8108 • E-ISSN: 1558-1470 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2185308 |
| OpenAlex | W1969174391 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 38 |
The author argues that no utterance can be fully understood simply in terms of its linguistic meaning but only with regard to contextual inference. He refutes the views of Austin and Searle and deals with major issues of pragmatics and speech-act theory
Epistemology · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Performative utterance · Pragmatics · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy
Art and Intention
Eavesdropping
Locutionary, Illocutionary, Perlocutionary
Characterisation of unconventional exor-anthroponyms in sport
Slovak ‘ no ’ and its pragmatic meanings and functions in relation to prosody
Procedural Acts as Double-Conventionalized Acts
What is an indirect speech act
Voices and noises in the theory of speech acts
An interactional account of illocutionary practice
Clause-type, primary illocution, and mood-like operators in English
From the many voices to the subject positions in anti-globalization discourse
Pragmatics
Never mind the text types, here's textual force
Metapragmatic negation as a rapport-oriented mitigating device
‘In this paper we report …'’
Linguistic underdeterminacy
The metapragmatic negation as a rapport-oriented mitigating device
Indirect request processing, sentence types and illocutionary forces
Relevance and prosody
Apologies in French and English
Illocutionary constructions
Expression of Affect and Illocution
Performative updates and the modeling of speech acts
Intentionalism in Aesthetics
Learning from Words
From Utterances to Speech Acts
Ritual Communication and Linguistic Ideology
Pragmatics and Non-Verbal Communication
Authoritatively speaking
Propositionale Argumente im Sprachvergleich / Propositional Arguments in Cross-Linguistic Research
Identyfikowanie czynności konwencjonalnych w prawie jako proces rozpoznawania ich sensu – wstęp do problematyki
The Informativeness Norm of Assertion
Compromisos aseverativos
The problem of uptake
On the connection between lying, asserting, and intending to cause beliefs
‘Austin vs. Searle on locutionary and illocutionary acts
A syntactic analysis of interpretive restrictions on imperative, promissive, and exhortative subjects
Contingent a priori truths and performatives
| Unique citing works | 38 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,12 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2025 (34) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |