From Speech Acts to Semantics

• Authors: Jim Mackenzie
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Frege introduced the notion of pragmatic force as what distinguishes statements from questions. This distinction was elaborated by Wittgenstein in his later works, and systematised as an account of different kinds of speech acts in formal dialogue theory by Hamblin. It lies at the heart of the inferential semantics more recently developed by Brandom. The present paper attempts to sketch some of the relations between these developments.

Keywords

EN

assertion; dialogue; force (Fregean); force (pragmatic); inferentialism; pragmatics; semantics; speech acts

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 36
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 121-142

Dates

published

2014-03-01

online

2014-04-12

Contributors

author

Jim Mackenzie

• University of Sydney

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/slgr-2014-0006