A whole presupposed proposition refers to the entirety of what is assumed to be true within a given statement or…
An utterance act is the basic unit of speech production, encompassing the physical act of speaking and the literal meaning…
A referent is the actual thing, person, or idea in the real world that a word, phrase, or symbol points…
The Propositional Content Condition asserts that for a statement to be meaningful, it must be possible to determine its truth…
A propositional act refers to the assertion or denial of a proposition. It's a fundamental concept in speech act theory,…
A presupposition is an implicit assumption about the world or background belief relating to an utterance. It's something the speaker…
An illocutionary conditional is a complex speech act where the performance of one speech act is conditional on the performance…
An illocutionary act is the speaker's intention or purpose in making an utterance, distinct from the literal meaning (locutionary) or…
Understanding the 'Identity of Illocutionary Forces' means recognizing that the same linguistic form can express different speech acts depending on…
A defective illocutionary act occurs when the intended force of an utterance is not successfully conveyed due to issues in…