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:
“Generally, about all perception, we can say that a sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet ring without the iron or gold.”
—Aristotle (384–323 B.C.)
“Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)