LIN 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Locutionary Act, Perlocutionary Act, Illocutionary Act
19 Apr 2017
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Meaning: the trad view: the meaning of a sentence is its truth conditions: the set of conditions under which the sentence is true. Declarative sentence: a sentence with syntactic properties such that it may be used to claim the truth of a proposition. More sentence meaning: j. l. austin (1975) More austin problems: there are declarative sentences whose meaning is not captured by truth conditions. I now pronounce you man and wife . I bet you the sabres will win the game. I apologize for that thing with your mother"s begonias. I promise to bake you a cake. : these types of sentences are called performatives because they perform actions. What"s a speech act: all of these types of utterances are speech acts, because all utterances perform speech acts, a speech act has 3 parts, the locutionary act: The production of an utterance that may (but need not) encode a proposition.
