Sincerity Condition
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A sincerity condition is the psychological state of the speaker concerning the propositional content of an illocutionary act. The sincere or insincere expression of this state necessarily accompanies all illocutionary acts, except for an act having a declarative illocutionary point, so that an act having
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This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library. Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.