Illocutionary acts and sentence meaning

by Alston, William P.

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Title Statements

Full title :Illocutionary acts and sentence meaning / William P. Alston.

Summary

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 terms of taking responsibility, in uttering a sentence, for the existence of certain conditions. In requesting someone to open a window, for example, the speaker takes responsibility for its being the case that the window is closed and that the speaker has an interest in its being opened. In Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning, Alston expands upon this concept, creating a framework of five categories of illocutionary act and going on to argue that sentence meaning is fundamentally a matter of illocutionary act potential; that is, for a sentence to have a particular meaning is for it to be usable to perform illocutionary acts of a certain type. In providing detailed and explicit patterns of analysis for the whole range of illocutionary acts, Alston makes a unique contribution to the field of philosophy of language, one that is likely to generate debate for years to come.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2000.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cornell Univ. Press
Place of Publication:Ithaca, N.Y
Language:eng
Publication Date:2000.

The Physical Object

Description:XIII, 327 Seiten ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0801436699, 9780801436697
oclc:ocn247848759
LC Classification:P95.55
Dewey Decimal:306.44

Subjects

Actes de langage Bedeutung -- Illokutiver Akt Discours (linguistique) Grammar, Comparative and general Grammar, Comparative and general -- Sen… Illocutoire Illokutiver Akt Illokutiver Akt -- Bedeutung Illokutiver Akt ; SWD-ID: 41222131 Performatif Phrase (Linguistique) Satzsemantik Satzsemantik ; SWD-ID: 41394306 semantics Sémantique Signification (linguistique) Speech acts Speech acts (Linguistics) Sprechakt