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Publication details [#20925]

Tsohatzidis, Savas L. 1989. Two consequences of hinting. Philosophy and Rhetoric 22 (4) : 288–293.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

expressibility | hinting | illocution | proper name

Person as a subject

Holdcroft, D. | Searle, J.R. | Warnock

Annotation

Can hinting be counted as a separate illocutionary act? If, it can: what are the consequences for Searle's principle of expressibility? A discussion of the position of D. Holdcroft, G. J. Warnock and J. R. Searle on this matter, plus an account of the problems raised by hinting for Searle's account of proper names.