performatives
Speech acts which are equivalent to actions; they have no truth value; perfomatives adhere to certain rules, so-called felicity conditions, that are implicitly agreed upon by the speakers of a language community
Types of performatives as distinguished by J.R. Searle, 1976:
- Representatives
- Directives
- Commissives
- Expressives
- Declaratives
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