A rhetorical view of locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts
- 1 October 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Quarterly Journal of Speech
- Vol. 59 (3) , 284-296
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00335637309383177
Abstract
J. L. Austin has argued that there are three kinds of linguistic acts: locutions, or utterances which possess sense and reference; illocutions, or utterances which have a certain force and are to be understood in a certain way; and perlocutions, or utterances which produce effects on the hearer and/or the utterer himself. But Austin's system ignores the poetic‐rhetorical dimensions of language and eliminates speaker, hearer, and situation as sources of meaning. Thus, his work has had little impact on communication.Keywords
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- Language as Symbolic ActionPublished by University of California Press ,1966