Illocutionary acts and sentence meaning
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Author
Publication
2000 - Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
81,750 words, Guess
Page Count
327 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL49550M
- ISBN-100801436699
- OCLC Control Number42683124
- OCLC Control Numberillocutionaryact00alst
- Library of Congress Control Number99052786
and 2 more
- LibraryThing540335
- Goodreads1669361
Classifications
- DDC306.44
- LCCP95.55 .A47 2000
Description
"What is it for a sentence to have a certain meaning? This is the question that William P. Alston addresses in this contribution to the philosophy of language. His answer focuses on the given sentence's potential to play the role that its speaker had in mind - what he terms the usability of the sentence to perform the illocutionary act intended by its speaker.". "Alston defines an illocutionary act as an act of saying something with a certain content. He develops his account of what it is to perform such acts in terms of taking responsibility, in uttering a sentence, for the existence of certain conditions." "In providing detailed and explicit patterns of analysis for the whole range of illocutionary acts, Alston makes a unique contribution to the field of philosophy of language - one that is likely to generate debate for years to come."--BOOK JACKET.
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