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It is by now commonplace that an utterance of (1) can be taken under appropriate conditions e.g., as a promise, a prediction, a warning, or a remark on the speaker’s and the addressee’s dispositions.
The ideas presented here have profited, among others, from discussions with Monika Doherty, Roland Hausser, Karl-Erich Heidolph, Jerry Katz, Ferenc Kiefer, Ewald Lang, Wolfgang Motsch, John Searle, Anna Szabolcsi, and Dieter Wunderlich. The different views are too obvious from the text to require the usual comment on the author’s responsibility.
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Bierwisch, M. (1980). Semantic Structure and Illocutionary Force. In: Searle, J.R., Kiefer, F., Bierwisch, M. (eds) Speech Act Theory and Pragmatics. Texts and Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8964-1_1
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