A Direct Speech Act is a speech act in which the speaker’s intended force corresponds literally and unambiguously to the grammatical form and conventional meaning of the utterance, thereby directly expressing the speaker’s illocutionary intention without indirect or inferred interpretation.
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Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language.
William P. Alston, John R. Searle · The Philosophical Quarterly · 1970 · 3.9K citations
Humanities, Linguistics, Philosophy +14
Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities
Stanley Fish · Poetics Today · 1982 · 582 citations
Humanities, Linguistics, Literature +16
Responding to indirect speech acts
Herbert H. Clark · Cognitive Psychology · 1979 · 486 citations
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University of Groningen
Groningen, The Netherlands
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8 publications
366 citations
Stanford University
Stanford, United States
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6 publications
678 citations
Lancaster University
Lancaster, United Kingdom
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3 publications
383 citations
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
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4 publications
505 citations
Wageningen University & Research
Wageningen, The Netherlands
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University of Sheffield
Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Wellesley College
Wellesley, United States
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Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, United States
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- Journal of Pragmatics
11 publications · 792 citations
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- Intercultural Pragmatics
4 publications · 84 citations
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- The Philosophical Quarterly
4 publications · 4.1K citations
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- Lodz Papers in Pragmatics
3 publications · 35 citations
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