ABSTRACT
What are the connections between the successful performance of illocutionary acts and audience understanding or uptake of their performance? According to one class of proposals, audience understanding suffices for successful performance. I explain how those proposals emerge from earlier work and seek to clarify some of their interrelations.
Acknowledgement
I’m grateful to Naomi Eilan, Hemdat Lerman, and two anonymous reviewers for comments on earlier versions.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.