Commitment between illocutionary acts is a condition in which the speaker's commitment to one illocutionary act necessarily means the commitment to some other illocutionary act, regardless of the context of utterance.
Examples (English)
- The performance of an act of demanding commits one to an act of requesting
- The commitment to a promise commits one to an act of asserting that one is not saying one does not promise
The commitment to a conjunctive illocutionary act commits the speaker to each of the elementary illocutionary acts contained within it.
(A conjunctive illocutionary act is a complex illocutionary act that consists of the performance of two or more illocutionary acts in one utterance.)
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