Glossary of Linguistic Terms

Commitment Between Illocutionary Acts

Definition: 

Commitment between illocutionary acts is a condition in which the speaker's commitment to one illocutionary act necessarily means the commitment to some other illocutionary act, regardless of the context of utterance.

Examples: 

(English)

The performance of an act of demanding commits one to an act of requesting

The commitment to a promise commits one to an act of asserting that one is not saying one does not promise

The commitment to a conjunctive illocutionary act commits the speaker to each of the elementary illocutionary acts contained within it

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