Perlocutions: The achilles' heel of speech act theory

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1719-1741

  Marcu, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Perlocutions; Persuasion; Situation calculus; Speech acts

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034311676     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-2166(99)00121-6     Document Type: Article

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