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- ↑ Austin, L. (1962). How to Do Things with Words. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 101.
Saying something will often, or even normally, produce certain consequential effects upon the feelings, thoughts, or actions of the audience, or of the speaker, or of other persons: and it may be done with the design, intention, or purpose of producing them.
- ↑ Green, Mitchell (2017). Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). "Speech Acts". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2017 ed.). Retrieved September 1, 2020.
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