This paper attempts to identify general, cross-cultural cognitive factors that trigger the default commissive interpretation of assertions about one’s future action. It is argued that the solution cannot be found at the level of the semantics of the English will, or any other future tense marker,… read more
Kissine, Mikhail 2008 Assertoric commitmentsCommitment, De Brabanter, Philippe and Patrick Dendale (eds.), pp. 155–177 | Article
This paper deals with the two kinds of commitment associated with assertive speech acts: the commitment to having justifications for the propositional content and the commitment to the truth of this content. It is argued that the former kind of commitment boils down to the monotonic commitment to… read more