The Receiving Side
Bach and Harnish claimed that performatives are successful only if recipients infers the intention behind the literal meaning, therefore the success of the performative act is determined by the receiving side.
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Famous quotes containing the words receiving and/or side:
“The same polarity of the male and female principle exists in nature; not only, as is obvious in animals and plants, but in the polarity of the two fundamental functions, that of receiving and penetrating. It is the polarity of earth and rain, of the river and the ocean, of night and day, of darkness and light, of matter and spirit.”
—Erich Fromm (1900–1980)
“As soon as by one’s own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one’s own right is laid.”
—Adolf Hitler (1889–1945)