We talk to people, not contexts.

According to a popular family of theories, assertions and other communicative acts should be understood as attempts to change the context of a conversation. Contexts, on this view, are publicly shared bodies of information that evolve over the course of a conversation and that play a range of semant...

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Published in:	Philosophical Studies Vol. 177; no. 9; pp. 2713 - 2734
Main Author:	Harris, Daniel W.
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Sep2020
Subjects:	Semantics Anaphora (Linguistics) Speech acts (Linguistics) Pragmatics Communication
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost