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explicit performative prefaces has not been solved.
· The illocutionary notion of a speech act affords a new type of "use"
theory of meaning.
Questions
1 Are all speech acts like "I double" in that they are constituted entirely
by convention? (See Strawson (1964).)
2 Can every speech act be assigned a locutionary content? Discuss our
apparent counterexamples and argue pro or con.
3 Choose a particular type of speech act and try to enumerate its consti-
tutive rules and its characteristic regulative conditions. (Searle (1969)
does this for the act of promising.)
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4 Spot some difficulties for Austin's distinction between locutionary,
illocutionary, and perlocutionary features. Find some troublesome
borderline cases.
5 Lewis (1970) defends the anti-Austinian idea that, when one tokens