Abstract

BLANCO SALGUEIRO, Antonio. How to Do Bad Things with Words: Hostile Speech Acts and the Foundations of Speech Act Theory. Crítica (Méx., D.F.) [online]. 2008, vol.40, n.118, pp.3-27.  Epub Apr 30, 2020. ISSN 0011-1503.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iifs.18704905e.2008.1017.

In this paper I argue that the study of a particular family of speech acts, the hostile illocutionary acts, gives us the key for the re-examination of four important foundational questions in speech act theory: the illocutionary/perlocutionary distinction, the notion of infelicity, the question of the primacy of first versus third person perspective in the study of force, and the question of the possibility of a general and systematic theory of the phenomenon of force.

Keywords : illocutionary force; illocutionary/perlocutionary; infelicity; first/third person.

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