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Publication details [#31831]

Nicoloff, Franck. 1989. Threats and illocutions. Journal of Pragmatics 13 (4) : 501–522.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

illocution | perlocution | threatening

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper attempts to show that threats are a very special type of perlocution, and cannot be assimilated to illucutionary acts. The analysis tends to confirm the "conventionalist" theory of speech acts and to discredit the rival "intentionalist" thesis of illocutions.