Pragmatic force in semantic context.
Stalnaker's Context deploys the core machinery of common ground, possible worlds, and epistemic accessibility to mount a powerful case for the 'autonomy of pragmatics': the utility of theorizing about discourse function independently of specific linguistic mechanisms. Illocutionary force lies at the...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 174; no. 6; pp. 1617 - 1628 |
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