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2 - The Syntacticization of Speech Acts
Martina Wiltschko, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Book:

The Grammar of Interactional Language

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28 May 2021

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17 June 2021, pp 9-37
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Chapter 2 reviews the state of the art of current attempts to syntacticize speech acts. These attempts are mostly based on classical speech act theory as developed by Austin and Searle in the sixties. It presents a brief overview of classic speech act theory. It identifies the issues pertaining to the relation between sentence structure and speech act type, which sets the stage for introducing the idea that speech act structure itself is part of syntax. I discuss the various stages and guises of this idea starting with Ross’s performative hypothesis and reviewing reanalyses of the idea within current syntactic theory. I then argue that all existing approaches toward the syntacticization of speech acts suffer from several weaknesses: specifically, most analyses fail to consider advances that have been made since classic speech act theory, namely the focus on the dynamic and interactional component of utterances.

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