[lit-ideas] "Pronounced Dead"
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 19:03:32 EDT
In a message dated 4/2/2009 6:52:55 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
"Thoughts Thought While Waiting For A
Pronouncement From A Doctor, An Editor, A Big Executive, The
Department Of Internal Revenue Or Any Other Momentous Pronouncer,"
----
Momentous?!
J. L. Austin remarks:
"When the coroner says, "She's dead" is the pronouncement:
(i) a mere illocutionary force without a phatic?
(ii) a rheme?
(iv) a perlocutionary-effect uptake with a pheme?
He chose (ii).
Cheers,
JLS
ps. Geary will find it puzzling that 'pronounced dead' draws many google
hits while in other tenses does not, "will pronounce dead", "pronounces dead".
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