How performatives work

Linguistic Communication and Speech Acts.

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

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Toward a Linguistic Theory of Speech Acts.

Bernard Comrie, Jerrold M. Sadock · The Philosophical Quarterly · 1976 · 515 citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Discourse Analysis +13

Performatives are statements too

Kent Bach · Philosophical Studies · 1975 · 110 citations

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Adverbs, vowels, and other objects of wonder

Frank H. Nuessel · Lingua · 1980 · 97 citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Philosophy Of Language +9

On Sentences Verifiable by their Use

E. J. Lemmon · Analysis · 1962 · 84 citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Applied Linguistics +1