Assertion: utterance's force | /r/MadeOf | explicit
Facets:
value: by the performative formula
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Indeed, he held that the use of a sentence with a certain illocutionary force is conventional in the peculiar sense that this force can be 'made explicit by the performative formula'.
text: Indeed, as he pointed out, there is no sense of the word 'conventional' in which the use of a given sentence with a certain illocutionary force is necessarily conventional, much less a sense having to do with the fact that this force can be "made explicit by the performative formula.