Cambridge University Press (1987)
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Professor Recanati's book is a major new contribution to the philosophy of language. Its point of departure is a refutation of two views central to the work of speech-act theorists such as Austin & Searle: that speech acts are essentially conventional, & that the force of an utterance can be made fully explicit at the level of sentence-meaning & is in principle a matter of linguistic decoding. The author argues that no utterance can be fully understood simply in terms of its linguistic meaning, but that only a contextual inference can provide an adequate framework. In pursuit of this argument, he deals with the major issues of pragmatics & speech-act theory: conversational implicatives & indirect speech acts, the classification of illocutionary forces, the performative/constative distinction, delocutivity, locutionary meaning, non-literal uses of languages, the principle of expressibilty, & the difference between institutional & communicative illocutionary acts.
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Keywords | Meaning (Philosophy Semantics (Philosophy Performative (Philosophy Pragmatics Convention (Philosophy |
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Reprint years | 1988 |
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Call number | B840.R3713 1987 |
ISBN(s) | 0521303532 9780521303538 |
DOI | 10.2307/2185308 |
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