For M 11/19, please read the following two articles, which may both be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website.

1.  Austin, John L. 1956/1961. Performative utterances. In J.O. Urmson and G.J. Warnock (eds.), J.L. Austin: Philosophical Papers, 233-252. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2.  Sadock, Jerrold M. 1972. Speech act idioms. In Paul M. Perenteau et al. (eds.), Papers from the Eight Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 329-339. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.