Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Social Identity
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What is it for a sentence to have a certain meaning? This is the question that the distinguished analytic philosopher William P. Alston addresses in this major contribution to the philosophy of language. His answer focuses on the given sentence's potential to play the role that its speaker had in mind, what he terms the usability of the sentence to perform the illocutionary act intended by its speaker.Alston defines an illocutionary act as an act...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0801436699
ISBN13:9780801436697
Release Date:April 2000
Publisher:Cornell University Press
Length:352 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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