Instructions for interpretation as separate performatives

In informal terms, a vocative identifies to whom the sentence’s content is addressed, a topic informs the addressee what it’s about, and a force marker says how the speaker wishes to use it to update the conversational context. I include all of these functions under the broad label “instructions for interpretation”, and in this paper I will pursue the idea that they should be studied within a single theoretical framework.

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