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Speech Acts
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Written in an outstandingly clear and lively style, this 1969 book provokes its readers to rethink issues they may have regarded as long since settled.
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“We take a different approach by regarding talk as a type of action with potential to instigate further activities over time (Austin, 1962;Searle, 1969; see also Gond, Cabantous, Harding, & Learmonth, 2015).”
From Timely hypocrisy? Hypocrisy temporalities in CSR communication (2020) · cites this paper as Searle, 1969
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“Some acts consist precisely in saying something, for instance declaring, promising, warning, inviting and congratulating (Austin, 1962;Searle, 1969).”
From Timely hypocrisy? Hypocrisy temporalities in CSR communication (2020) · cites this paper as Searle, 1969
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“Hereby, he disregards situations in which talk drives action (Austin, 1962;Gond et al., 2015;Searle, 1969).”
From Timely hypocrisy? Hypocrisy temporalities in CSR communication (2020) · cites this paper as Searle, 1969
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“Mann's study concludes that Eve's speeches are illocutionary acts (that is, actions carried out through speech) with a declarative, assertive, and performative force on two levels: the story level and the storyteller level.”
From Reframing Genesis 3:16: Eve’s Creation Memoir (2024) · cites this paper as Searle 1969
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“Searle ' s schematism appears to be the best known and most widely applied, even if it is still occasionally contested.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Searle, J. R.
- Corresponding author
- Searle, John R.
- Venue
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 1969-01-01
- OpenAlex
- W4235073904
- Semantic Scholar
- e42ba35bf478906fdce304c0f999f044e3c785d3
- Cited by
- 11,718
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 586 · 2025: 605 · 2024: 425 · 2023: 466 · 2022: 456 · 2021: 528 · 2020: 522 · 2019: 831 · 2018: 498 · 2017: 446 · 2016: 456 · 2015: 349 · 2014: 647 · 2013: 294 · 2012: 245
- FWCI
- 86.53
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- RCIN (Digital Repository of the Scientifics Institutes) (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
- Keywords
- speech acts, pragmatics, utterance interpretation, illocutionary force, conversational meaning
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