New work on speech acts / edited by Daniel Fogal, Daniel W. Harris, and Matt Moss.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fogal, Daniel, editor.

Harris, Daniel W., editor.

Moss, Matt, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Speech acts (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 437 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Speech acts

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

This volume presents new essays by leading figures in speech-act theory, the interdisciplinary study of things we do with words. They range over formal semantics and pragmatics, foundational issues about the nature of linguistic representation, and issues at the intersection of the philosophy of language, ethics, and political philosophy.

Contents:

Speech acts : the contemporary theoretical landscape / Daniel W. Harris, Daniel Fogal, and Matt Moss

Insinuation, common ground, and the conversational record / Elisabeth Camp

Clause-type, force, and normative judgment in the semantics of imperatives / Nate Charlow

A refinement and defense of the force/content distinction / Mitchell S. Green

Types of speech acts / Peter Hanks

Blocking as counter-speech / Rae Langton

Explicit indirection / Ernie Lepore and Matthew Stone

On covert exercitives : speech and the social world / Mary Kate McGowan

Force and conversational states / Sarah E. Murray and William B. Starr

The social life of slurs / Geoff Nunberg

Commitment to priorities / Paul Portner

Speech acts in discourse context / Craige Roberts

Dogwhistles, political manipulation, and philosophy of language / Jennifer Saul

Dynamic pragmatics, static semantics / Robert Stalnaker

Expressivism by force / Seth Yalcin.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-105902-1

0-19-180205-0

0-19-105901-3