Wanderer, Jeremy and Townsend, Leo (2023) Illocution by example. Synthese, 202, [7]. (doi:10.1007/s11229-023-04229-9).
Abstract
According to a dominant understanding, the illocutionary domain is a bifurcated one,
an amalgam containing both communicative speech acts (such as requesting and
promising) and ceremonial speech acts (such as saying ‘I do’ in a marriage cere-
mony and naming a ship). Bifurcating the domain in this manner is commonly taken
to be a primary lesson of Austin’s “How To Do Things With Words’, alongside that
of according communicative speech acts a far greater prominence in terms of our core
understanding of illocution. In contrast, we draw on the resources provided by Austin’s
work to provide a more unified conception of the illocutionary domain, one in which
differences between communicative and ceremonial acts are themselves understood
to emerge from a broader understanding of the illocutionary character of speech
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