The aim of this contribution is to examine the notion of commitment involved in some alternative views of the illocutionary force of speech acts. After examining the Gricean approach, where a notion of commitment can be said to be connected to the expression of attitudes on the part of a speaker, the interactionalist approach is taken into consideration to highlight those aspects of the interaction where a joint commitment is required for the illocutionary act to take place, thus going beyond the speaker’s communicative intentions. Finally, some difficulties in this last account will be taken into consideration.
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