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Performatives and declaratives

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sveska
 
Reply Mon 7 Apr, 2014 08:23 am
can anybody help me to understand, and how to recognize performative and declarative utterances in text
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Reply Mon 7 Apr, 2014 08:57 am
@sveska,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performative_utterance
You need to look for reported speech or conversational text involving examples given in this reference.
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