Illocutionary acts and sentence meaning /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Alston, William P.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2000.
Subjects:
Speech acts (Linguistics)
Semantics.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Sentences.
Semantics
Actes de parole.
Sémantique.
Phrase (Linguistique)
semantics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
PHILOSOPHY > Language.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Sentences
Satzsemantik
Illokutiver Akt
Taalhandelingen.
Betekenis.
Zinnen.
Illocuties.
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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