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Speech Act Semantics

Speech Act Semantics is a linguistic framework that specifies the truth conditions of utterances by identifying the propositional content and illocutionary force of speech acts, thereby distinguishing them from purely truth-conditional or referential approaches to meaning.

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277

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147

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2017–2026

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Publications

203

Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language.

William P. Alston, John R. Searle · The Philosophical Quarterly · 1970 · 3.9K citations

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A classification of illocutionary acts

John R. Searle · Language in Society · 1976 · 3K citations

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Linguistic Communication and Speech Acts.

Warren Ingber, Kent Bach, Robert M. Harnish · The Philosophical Review · 1982 · 2.5K citations

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Intention and Convention in Speech Acts

P. F. Strawson · The Philosophical Review · 1964 · 965 citations

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Research Methods in Interlanguage Pragmatics

Gabriele Kasper, Merete Dahl · Studies in Second Language Acquisition · 1991 · 660 citations

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Authors

277

  1. JR
    John R. Searle

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    5 publications · 7.4K citations

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  2. RJ
    Robert J. Stainton

    Western University, Canada

    4 publications · 178 citations

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  3. RM
    Robert M. Harnish

    University of Arizona, United States

    4 publications · 2.8K citations

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  4. GK
    Gabriele Kasper

    University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, United States

    3 publications · 978 citations

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  5. ND
    Noah D. Goodman

    Stanford University, United States

    3 publications · 69 citations

    3

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Institutions

147

  1. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    5 h-index

    11 publications

    454 citations

  2. Universitat de Barcelona

    Barcelona, Spain

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    86 citations

  3. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    3 h-index

    9 publications

    341 citations

  4. Western University

    London, Canada

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    129 citations

  5. University of Connecticut

    Storrs, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    80 citations

  6. California Southern University

    Chandler, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    71 citations

  7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    102 citations

  8. Lancaster University

    Lancaster, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    331 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Pragmatics

    20 publications · 1.1K citations

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  2. The Philosophical Review

    7 publications · 4.2K citations

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  3. Journal of Linguistics

    6 publications · 601 citations

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  4. Language

    5 publications · 398 citations

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  5. Mind & Language

    4 publications · 160 citations

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