According to John Austin, sentences like “I name this ship the Queen Elizabeth” are called ____.
A. performatives
B. constatives
C. felicity conditions
D. declarative
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According to John Austin, sentences like “It’s raining” are called _____.
A. performatives
B. constatives
C. felicity conditions
D. declarative
Austin’s first shot at the speech act theory is the claim that there are two types of sentences: performatives and constatives.
A. 对
B. 错
For the performative sentences,we can not decide whether they are true or false, but we can judge whether they work or not.
A. 对
B. 错
The major difference between a performative verband aconstative verb is whether they are doing an action or not
A. 对
B. 错