CONDITIONS OF IMPLEMENTING PERFORMATIVITY BY ENGLISH STATEMENTS WITH THE CONSTRUCTIONS LIKE “IF I MAY CORRECT”

Abstract

The article examines the issues of implementing performativity by the composite combinations “If I may + an assertive verb”. The capability of such combinations to performativity is based on their perception as indirect speech acts; this in itself implies that performatives of such type have a highly conventional character. Nevertheless the author comes to the conclusion that the capability of implementing the performativity by the statements with these combinations have concrete semantic-syntactic limitations.

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• Published: June 10, 2015.

Keywords

• теория речевых актов
• перформативность
• композитные перформативы
• косвенные речевые акты
• the theory of speech acts
• performativity
• composite performatives
• speech acts

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