Utterances without Force
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DOI: 10.1163/18756735-09603005
Abstract: In this paper the author attempts to reconcile two claims recently defended by Mitchell Green. The first is that illocutionary force is part of speaker meaning (Green 2018). The second is that illocutionary force is… read more here.
Keywords: intent; communicative intent; speaker meaning; part speaker ... See more keywords
Exclamatives, exclamations, miratives and speaker’s meaning
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DOI: 10.1163/18773109-01102104
Abstract: Exclamations, exclamatives and miratives are utterances that do not merely convey some informative content, but are designed to express the emotional attitude of surprise. In this paper I argue that analysing what it means to… read more here.
Keywords: exclamations miratives; speaker meaning; miratives speaker; exclamatives exclamations ... See more keywords
The interactional achievement of speaker meaning: Toward a formal account of conversational inference
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DOI: 10.1515/ip-2018-0021
Abstract: Abstract Dominant accounts of “speaker meaning” in post-Gricean contextualist pragmatics tend to focus on single utterances, making the theoretical assumption that the object of pragmatic analysis is restricted to cases where speakers and hearers agree… read more here.
Keywords: meaning toward; speaker meaning; speaker; achievement speaker ... See more keywords