Meaning and force : the pragmatics of performative utterances

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Meaning and force : the pragmatics of performative utterances

François Recanati

(Cambridge studies in philosophy / general editor, Ernest Sosa)

Cambridge University Press, c1987

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Les Enoncés performatifs

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Bibliography: p. 267-272

Includes index

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The author argues that no utterance can be fully understood simply in terms of its linguistic meaning but only with regard to contextual inference. He refutes the views of Austin and Searle and deals with major issues of pragmatics and speech-act theory.

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