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Publication details [#1980]

Carr, C.R. 1978. Speaker meaning and illocutionary acts. Philosophical Studies 34 : 281–291.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

illocution | meaning | meaning theory | utterance

Person as a subject

Schiffer, S.R. | Strawson, P.F.

Annotation

C. shows that Schiffer's amendation of Strawson's speaker-meaning program fails to provide an adequate basis for a speaker-meaning theory of illocutionary acts, and then the author indicates the direction the analysis could take in order to avoid these difficulties.