Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning /

Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning / / William P. Alston.

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What is it for a sentence to have a certain meaning? This is the question that the distinguished analytic philosopher William P. Alston addresses in this major contribution to the philosophy of language. His answer focuses on the given sentence's potential to play the role that its speaker had...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Alston, William P.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2000]
©2015
Year of Publication:2000
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The Nature of Illocutionary Acts
  • 1. The Stratification of Linguistic Behavior
  • 2. Perlocutionary Intention Theories of Illocutionary Acts
  • 3. The Nature of Illocutionary Acts
  • 4. Types of Illocutionary Acts: Commissives, Exercitives, Directives, and Expressives
  • 5. Assertion and Other Assertives: Completing the Account
  • Part II. An Account of the Meaning of Sentences
  • 6. The Problem Of Linguistic Meaning
  • 7. Illocutionary Act Potential and Illocutionary Rules
  • 8. The Status of Illocutionary Rules
  • 9. The Ia Potential Theory Of Meaning and Its Alternatives
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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