Embedding Illocutionary Acts. Krifka, M. In Roeper, T. & Speas, M., editors, Recursion: Complexity in Cognition, pages 59–87. Springer, Cham, 2014. ![Embedding Illocutionary Acts [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper abstract bibtex Speech acts have sometimes been considered as not embeddable, for principled reasons. In this paper, I argue that illocutionary acts can be embedded under certain circumstances. I provide for a semantic interpretation of illocutionary acts as functions from world/time indices to world/time indices, which provides them with a semantic type, and allows for operators that take them as arguments. I will illustrate this with three cases: First, with illocutionary acts as arguments of verbs like tell, second, as semantic objects modified by speech act adverbials like frankly and third, with Austinian conditionals. By these exemplary cases, I show that illocutionary acts (or rather, speech-act potentials) become part of the recursive structure of language.
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urldate = {2025-03-29},
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