An introduction to illocutionary acts
What makes this book different? The present initiation to the study of illocutionary acts is different from the existing introductory books on the sam.. Lire la suite
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What makes this book different? The present initiation to the study of illocutionary acts is different from the existing introductory books on the same subject in three important ways.
First. this book has one main objective: It highlights and tries to answer the question which originally motivated the earliest attempts to speculate about illocutionary acts, namely what we will be calling in this book the question of meaning- the question of how speeches come to be as meaningful as they sound. The first chapter of the book will formulate a general version of this question, and chapters 2 and 3 will revisit this question and discuss it in the light of illocutionary acts...