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Notice that the latter point is also a further objection to the standard
truth-conditional theory of meaning, because that theory assumes the locu-
tionary content is determined independently of force.
Summary
· Austin called our attention to "performative" utterances and speech
acts more generally.
· Each type of speech act is governed by rules of two sorts: constitutive
and regulative.
· Violation of a regulative rule renders a speech act defective or infelici-
tous. There are many and varied ways in which a given speech act can
be infelicitous.
· There is no principled distinction between performative utterances
and those of ordinary declaratives; rather, every utterance has an
illocutionary force, and virtually every utterance has a propositional
content as well.
· In addition, many utterances have perlocutionary features.
· Cohen's problem about the truth conditions of sentences that contain