Abstract
A crucially important adequacy test of any theory of speech acts is its ability to handle performatives. This paper provides a theory of performatives as a test case for our rationally based theory of illocutionary acts. We show why "I request you..." is a request, and "I lie to you that p" is self-defeating. The analysis supports and extends earlier work of theorists such as Bach and Harnish [1] and takes issue with recent claims by Searle [10] that such performative-as-declarative analyses are doomed to failure.
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Cohen, P. R., & Levesque, H. J. (1990). Performatives in a rationally based speech act theory. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Vol. 1990-June, pp. 79–88). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.3115/981823.981834
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