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:
“Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“I had an old axe which nobody claimed, with which by spells in winter days, on the sunny side of the house, I played about the stumps which I had got out of my bean-field. As my driver prophesied when I was plowing, they warmed me twice,—once while I was splitting them, and again when they were on the fire, so that no fuel could give out more heat. As for the axe,... if it was dull, it was at least hung true.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)