About this title: What is it for a sentence to have a certain meaning? This is the question that William P. Alston, one of America's most distinguished and prolific analytic philosophers, 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 in mind -- what he terms the usability of the sentence to perform the illocutionary act intended by its speaker.
Alston defines an illocutionary act as an act of saying something with a certain "content". He develops his account of what it is to perform such acts in ...
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Binding: orig. boards
Publisher: Cornell University Press, Ithaca [NY]
Date Published: (2000)
Description: Minor rubbing. VG. 23x15cm, xiii, 327 pp. Contents: The Nature of Illocutionary Acts: The Stratification of Linguistic Behavior; Perlocutionary Intention Theories of Illocutionary Acts; The Nature of Illocutionary Acts; Types of Illocutionary Acts: Commissives, Exercitives; Directives & Expressives; Assertion & Other Assertives: Completing the Account; An Account of the Meaning of Sentences: The Problem of Linguistic Meaning; Illocutionary Act Potential & Illocutionary Rules; The Status of ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780801436697ISBN:0801436699
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