A crucially important adequacy test of any theory of speech acts is its ability to handle performatives. This paper provides a theory of performatives as a test case for our rationally based theory of illocutionary acts. We show why \I request you. . ." is a request, and \I lie to you that p" is self-defeating. The analysis supports and extends earlier work of theorists such as Bach and Harnish...

Speech act theory (the study of how utterances function as statements, questions, commands, etc.) is increasingly applicable to software design. Moore has found that the repertoire of speech acts used in electronic com-

the present study aimed to identify strategies used to realize the speech act of offerin persian. to do so, 195 male and female native persian speakers were selected fromdiverse age ranges, educational backgrounds, and social classes, and were assigned a36-item discourse completion task (dct) to elicit the speech act of offer. thirtyfield workers also recorded naturally occurring interactions c...

Speech act theory has been used on numerous occasions to create an underlying framework on which communication technologies can be built. Electronic mail filtering methods, communication support tools and modelling techniques using several variants of speech act theory have all been proposed in the last few years. Distributed organisations employ various communication methods in order to share ...

In this paper, we merge speech act theory, emotion theory, and logic. We propose a modal logic that integrates the concepts of belief, goal, ideal and responsibility and that allows to describe what a given agent expresses in the context of a conversation with another agent. We use the logic in order to provide a systematic analysis of expressive speech acts, that is, speech acts that are aimed...

This paper criticizes previous approaches to per-locutions and previous formalizations of perlocu-tionary eeects of communicative actions by showing that some of their fundamental assumptions are inconsistent with data from communication studies, psychology, and social studies of persuasion. Consequently, it argues for a data-driven approach to pragmatics, one that permits pragmatic theories to...

The past decade has seen the rapid development of a new approach to pragmatics that attempts integrate insights from formal and experimental semantics pragmatics, psycholinguistics, computational cognitive science in study meaning: probabilistic pragmatics. most influential is Rational Speech Act (RSA) framework. In this review, I demonstrate basic mechanics commitments RSA as well some its sta...