And an indispensible text discussing this distinction in the context of the Free Speech Clause is Kent Greenawalt's Speech, Crime, and the Uses of Language.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Berg, Thomas C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Law & Religion issues for Law Academics" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 10:14 AM Subject: RE: Perlocutionary and Illocutionary Speech Acts > Without remembering much more, I remember that a classic text on this is > J.L. Austin's How To Do Things With Words. > > Tom Berg > University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota) > > _____ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thu 3/18/2004 4:46 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Perlocutionary and Illocutionary Speech Acts > > > From a former life, I recall that a perlocutionary act is a > meaningful speech act designed to have particular effects on people who hear > them. For example, telling the story of "the little engine that could" has > the perlocutionary force of encouraging a child to try to master some task. > Illocutionary acts are meaningful speech acts which function as performative > speech acts the utterance of which is an action of a particular kind. For > example, the meaningful statement, "All hands on deck" is the illlocutionary > speech act of ordering sailors to appear on deck. An observer who replied, > " No that's false, no one is on deck." would fail to appreciate the > illocutionary (performative) force of the speech act. The utterance "I do" > in a marriage ceremony is an illocutionary speech act. I think this is the > nature of the distinction. > > Bobby > > > Robert Justin Lipkin > Professor of Law > Widener University School of Law > Delaware > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > _______________________________________________ > To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw > _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw
