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Bruno Callebaut, « La négation et les théories de l'illocutoire », LINX, ID : 10.3406/linx.1994.1296
This paper discusses the different interactions between negation and the illocutionary acts. It analyses the illocutionary values of negative utterances according to the classical taxonomy proposed by Searle. Some sentences show a rejection or, on the contrary, an affinity with negation, not indifferent to their illocutionnary status. The results confirm the interest of the initial distinction between performative and other acts, and between explicit and primary ones and so sheds some light on the functioning of negation in general. The second part focusses attention on "speech act verbs" under negation, and hints to the diversity of semantic and pragmatic aspects involved.