Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning by William P. Alston
'ing). When a speaker utters a sentence, they take responsibility for certain conditions being true (e.g., in a request to open a window, the speaker is responsible for the condition that the window is actually closed). Taxonomy of Speech Acts Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning
Alston expands on the work of J.L. Austin and John Searle, categorizing illocutionary acts into five primary types: Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning by William P
Alston’s central thesis is that for a sentence to have a particular meaning is for it to be to perform illocutionary acts of a matching type. Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning
Acts like stating, describing, or predicting that something is the case.