The Reflexivity of Explicit Performatives

Abstract

The aim of this contribution is to propose a natural implementation of the reflexive-referential theory advanced by Perry 2001 that aims at accounting for the reflexive character of explicit performative utterances. This is accomplished by introducing a reflexive-performative constraint on explicit performatives.

Promise: Semantic, Communicative and Temporal Aspects

“…However, the relation of primary and explicit performatives (presented by Austin as concretisation and, in a certain sense, amplification of the first by the second) is interpreted by some authors in a different, to a certain extent, even opposite sense: as the bringing into the primary performative of additional reflective meaning "I promise", possessing the meaning of self-reference ("I promise" is considered in this case as an auto characteristic of a speech act) (Johansson, 2003;Corredor, 2009).…”