PHL145H5 Chapter 2: PHL145 Book Notes - Ch2
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Linguistic acts: linguistic act utter a meaningful sentence, syntax (syntactic or grammatical rules) how words are put together to make sentences or phrases, semantics (semantic rules) govern meaning and reference; justify if a sentence structure makes sense, to make sense, sentences must follow both semantic and syntactic rules/conventions. Performatives cannot be fake (e. g. saying i agree with you is not a performative: sometimes silence can act as a performative, explicit performative iff by saying something you actually explicitly perform the act (the thereby test applies, performative verbs kind of speech acts e. g. promising, swearing, apologizing (complement the performatives: i promise, i swear, i apologize etc. ) Argumentative performatives explicit performatives can make valid arguments (e. g. i conclude that this bill be voted down: speech acts depend on context and authority, not everyone can deliver a sound speech act (e. g. only an umpire can declare a player to be out) otherwise the speech act would be void.
