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An earlier version of this paper was delivered as a forum address to the Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute at Stanford, 1987. I am indebted to several people for helpful comments and criticism, and I especially want to thank J. Boyd, Y. Matsumoto, T. B. Nguyen, D. Searle and E. Sweetser. There is now a vast literature on the subject of performatives, and I am, of course, indebted to the authors whose works I have read. Specifically, I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness to J. Austin, K. Bach, M. Bierwisch, C. Ginet, R. Harnish, I. Hedenius, J. Lemmon, J. McCawley, F. Récanati, J. Sadock, J. Urmson, and G. Warnock. (See bibliography).
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Searle, J.R. How performatives work. Linguist Philos 12, 535–558 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00627773
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