Sadock Jerrold M. Toward a Linguistic Theory of Speech Acts

Academic Press, 1974. — xi, 168 pages. — ISBN: 0-12-614350-1.Classic study from the Generative Semantics movement within linguistics theory of the 1960s and 1970s. Book should be of interest for anyone studying speech acts and anyone interested in the history of linguistic theory.Formal Linguistics
Speech Acts
Formal Linguistics and Illocutionary Acts
The Evidence for the Performative Analysis
Pronominalization and Related Phenomena
Adverbial Expressions
Respect Language
Miscellaneous Syntactic and Semantic ArgumentsEmbedded Performatives
Indirect Speech Acts
Distinguishing Use From Meaning
Some Covert Illocutionary Acts in English
Interrogative Sentences
Imperative Sentences
Conclusions