Communicative Act

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A Communicative Act is a communication of intent/request by means of a linguistic expression from a speaker to a hearer.



References

1986

  • (Recanati, 1986) ⇒ Francois Recanati. (1986). “On Defining Communicative Intentions.” In: Mind & Language, 1(3).
    • "A communicative act is performed by means of an utterance U if an only if U makes such a complex intention manifest; a communication succeeds when this intention is actually recognized by the hearer"