Speech acts / / edited by Peter Cole, Jerry L. Morgan.

• Superior document: Syntax and Semantics ; Volume 3
• TeilnehmendeR: Cole, Peter, 1941-; Morgan, Jerry L.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York : : Academic Press,, [1975]; ©1975
• Year of Publication: 1975
• Language: English
• Series: Syntax and semantics ; Volume 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Both linguists and philosophers have, for a number of years, been interested in the concept of speech acts, first proposed by J. L. Austin; but each discipline has remained uniformed on the often parallel work of the other. This volume brings together linguistic and philosophical approaches to speech acts, in order to bring out agreements and disagreements. Many of the articles focus on the problem of indirect speech acts, or "conversational implicature".Such indirect speech acts are a major impediment to a coherent, explanatory account of the relation between sound and meaning, since it is not clear whether the use of a sentence to perform and indirect speech act is part of the sentence's linguistically significant meaning, to be handled by syntactic rules, or whether this use is best explained on some other basis, such as a theory of language use. In this volume, such philosophers as John Searle and H. P. Grice examine the relation between the content of a sentence and the conditions under which it can be used to perform a given speech act, while such linguists as John Robert Ross, Georgia M. Green, and Jerrold M. Sadock show that the illocutionary intent of a speaker is often reflected in the syntactic properties of the sentence he uses. This book, with its full airing of the controversy regarding the status of conversational implicature and syntactic rules, will be invaluable to both linguists and philosophers concerned with semantics and pragmatics.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Peter Cole and Jerry L. Morgan -- Meaning and Truth in the Theory of Speech Acts / Dennis W. Stampe -- Logic and Conversation / H. P. Grice -- Indirect Speech Acts / John R. Searle -- Conversational Postulates / David Cordon and George Lakoff -- How to Get People to Do Things with Words: The Whimperative Question / C. M. Green -- Indirect Speech Acts and What to Do with Them / Alice Davison -- Hedged Performatives / Bruce Fraser -- Asymmetric Conjunction and Rules of Conversation / Susan F. Schmerlinc -- Where to Do Things with Words / John Robert Ross -- The Synchronic and Diachronic Status of Conversational Implicature / Peter Cole -- Some Interactions of Syntax and Pragmatics / J. L. Morgan -- 'Meaning' / Richard T. Carner -- Meaningnn and Conversational lmplicature / Richard A. Wright -- The Soft, Interpretive Underbelly of Generative Semantics / Jerrold M. Sadock -- Author Index / Peter Cole and Jerry L. Morgan -- Subject Index / Peter Cole and Jerry L. Morgan.