Subsentential illocutions and communication

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titleSubsentential illocutions and communication
start_date2010/03/10
schedule14h30-16h30
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location_infosalle de réunion
details! horaire et lieu différent du 9 mars. Suite le 16 mars
summaryI 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. Unlike Stainton, I will argue that the proposition expressed by a subsentential assertion and its corresponding thought are not the end product of a pragmatic process of free enrichment. I shall defend the view that a thought may concern something without the thinker having to represent that very thing.
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