Illocutionary acts and sentence meaning / William P. Alston.
"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 o...
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I. Nature of Illocutionary Acts. 1. Stratification of Linguistic Behavior. 2. Perlocutionary Intention Theories of Illocutionary Acts. 3. Nature of Illocutionary Acts. 4. Types of Illocutionary Acts: Commissives, Exercitives, Directives, and Expressives. 5. Assertion and Other Assertives: Completing the Account
- pt. II. Account of the Meaning of Sentences. 6. Problem of Linguistic Meaning. 7. Illocutionary Act Potential and Illocutionary Rules. 8. Status of Illocutionary Rules. 9. IA Potential Theory of Meaning and Its Alternatives.