Ten Conditions on a Theory of Speech Acts

Theoretical Linguistics 11 (3):309-330 (1984)
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Abstract

It is now generally recognized that figures such as Reid, Peirce, and Reinach formulated theories of speech acts avant la lettre of Austin and Searle, in Reid and Reinach’s cases under the heading ‘theory of social acts’. Here we address the question as to what conditions would have to be satisfied for such theories to count as ‘theories of speech acts’ in the now familiar sense.

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Barry Smith
University at Buffalo

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