. In this paper, illocutionary acts of commanding will be differentiated from perlocutionary acts that affect preferences of addressees in a new dynamic logic which combines the preference upgrades introduced by van Benthem and Liu in [vBLar] with deontic updates introduced by Yamada in [Yam07b]. The resulting logic will incorporate Austin’s distinction between illocutionary acts as act...

In a normative system many of the obligations, prohibitions and permissions exist as a result of communication with users and/or other systems. In this paper we will discuss the role of illocutionary logic and deontic logic in modelling these communication processes and the resulting norms. The combination of illocutionary and deontic logic can be used to reason about communication structures. ...

BACKGROUND One of the most important ingredients of felicitous conversation exchanges is the adequate expression of illocutionary force and the achievement of perlocutionary effects, which can be considered essential to the functioning of pragmatic competence. FINDINGS The breakdown of illocutionary and perlocutionary functions is one of the most prominent external features of cognitive impai...

Task: Discover and document graphics-based systems for the representation of illocutionary forces, predicate argument structures, and semantic relations and evaluations of such systems, with an emphasis on systems designed for use by lay users as well as domain experts.