Unenriched Subsentential Illocutions.

In this paper I challenge the common wisdom (see Dummett and Davidson) that sentences are the minimal units with which one can perform a speech act or make a move in the language game. I thus sit with Perry and Stainton in arguing that subsentences can be used to perform full-fledged speech acts. In...

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Published in:	Philosophy & Phenomenological Research Vol. 83; no. 3; pp. 560 - 583
Main Author:	CORAZZA, EROS
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Nov2011
Subjects:	Philosophy of language Speech acts (Linguistics) Philosophy Theory of knowledge Proposition (Logic)
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