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acknowledgements I: SPEECH ACT THEORY AND FORMAL SEMANTICS 1. The primary units of meaning 2. Illocutionarily significant sentence types 3. Intensional logic and illocutionary logic II: A GENERAL SUCCESS AND TRUTH CONDITIONAL SEMANTICS 1. Main features of general semantics 2. Philosophical interest 3. Criteria of adequacy 4. The place of general semantics in semiotics III: ON THE LOGICAL FORM OF PROPOSITIONS 1. Historical remarks 2. Propositions and truth values 3. Propositions and illocutionary acts 4. The law of propositional identity 5. Logical operations on propositions IV: ON THE LOGICAL FORM OF LOCUTIONARY ACTS 1. Analysis of the notion of illocutionary force 2. Recursive definition of the set of all illocutionary forces 3. The semantic concepts of success and satisfaction V: FUNDAMENTAL LAWS FOR MEANING AND USE 1. Laws for illocutionary points and sentential types 2. Laws for illocutionary forces 3. Laws of entailment and analyticity VI: SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH PERFORMATIVE VERBS 1. English assertives 2. English commissives 3. English directives 4. English declaratives 5. English expressives Conclusion Notes Appendix 1. List of symbols 2. Index Bibliography