Performative Verbs

Performative Verbs is a linguistic construct that designates verbs used in utterances which do not merely describe actions but instead function to perform illocutionary acts such as promising, declaring, or appointing, thereby bringing about the action they name through their utterance under appropriate conditions.

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  1. RM
    Roel M. Willems

    Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

    2 publications · 125 citations

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  2. MP
    Martha Palmer

    University of Colorado Boulder, United States

    2 publications · 345 citations

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  3. RB
    Robert Botne

    Indiana University, United States

    2 publications · 149 citations

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    John R. Searle

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

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  5. FK
    Felix K. Ameka

    Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands

    2 publications · 165 citations

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  1. Language

    3 publications · 281 citations

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  2. Journal of Pragmatics

    3 publications · 77 citations

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  3. Journal of Historical Pragmatics

    2 publications · 56 citations

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  4. Language and Cognitive Processes

    2 publications · 263 citations

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  5. Scando Slavica

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