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
See Also:
Source:
25, 81, 84
This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library. Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.