Contents
I Performatives and Constatives 1
II Conditions for Happy Performatives 12
III Infelicities: Misfires 25
IV Infelicities: Abuses 39
V Possible Criteria of Performatives 53
VI Explicit Performatives 67
VII Explicit Performative Verbs 83
VIII Locutionary, Illocutionary, and Perlocutionary Acts 94
IX Distinctions between Illocutionary and Perlocutionary Acts 109
X ‘In saying…’ v. ‘By saying…’ 121
XI Statements, Performatives, and Illocutionary Force 133
XII Classes of Illocutionary Force 148
Appendix 165
Index 169
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