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Searle's inventory of illocutionary force indicating devices (1969)

  1. word order,
  2. stress,
  3. intonation contour,
  4. punctuation,
  5. the mood of the verb,
  6. the so-called performative verbs.

Searle's approach is based on the earlier theory of Austin (lectures 1955, published posthumously 1962).



Dafydd Gibbon
Wed Oct 21 15:49:14 MET DST 1998