FOUNDATIONS OF ILLOCUTIONARY LOGIC JOHN R. SEARLE and DANIEL VANDERVEKEN all manner of Books was granted by Henry VII in 1538. The University has printed ‘and published continuously since 1584. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge London New York New Rochelle Melbourne SydneyPublished by the Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge cB2 1RP 32 East 57th Street, New York, Ny 10022, USA ro Stamford Road, Oakleigh, Melbourne 3166, Australia © Cambridge University Press 1985 First published 1985 Printed in Great Britain at the University Press, Cambridge Library of Congress catalogue card number: 84-4948 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Searle, John R. Foundations of illocutionary logic. 1. Speech acts (Linguistics) I. Title II. Vanderveken, Daniel 149/943 P95-55 ISBN 0 521 263247 NPCONTENTS Preface Acknowledgements 1 Introduction to the theory of speech acts 1 Illocutionary acts and illocutionary logic 11 Illocutionary acts and other types of speech acts 111 The seven components of illocutionary force 1v Definitions of illocutionary force and related notions 2 Basic notions of a calculus of speech acts 1 Definition of the set of possible contexts of utterance 11 Some formal properties of the set of all propositions 111 Some formal properties of illocutionary forces 1v Definition of an illocutionary force 3 The logical structure of the set of illocutionary forces 1 The hypothesis of constructibility 11 The five illocutionary points 111 Principal operations on illocutionary forces 4 Conditions of success of illocutionary acts and illocutionary commitments 1 Definitions of the set of all illocutionary acts and of their conditions of success 11 Some axioms governing illocutionary commitment and strict equivalence 5 On the logical form of the various components of illocutionary force 1 Illocutionary point 27 27 31 46 49 49 gi 63 74 74 82 87 87