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Clark, Herbert H. and Thomas B. Carlson. 1982. Speech acts and hearer's beliefs. In Smith, Neil V., ed. Mutual knowledge. Academic Press. pp. 1–36.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

audience | mutual knowledge | speech act theory

Annotation

The paper examines some common uses of language in which shared beliefs among hearers are critical (i.e. in situations where the speaker has more than one hearer). This investigation leads to an examination of speech act theory in general: it is argued that the findings require a rather fundamental addition to traditional theories of speech acts.

Reviewed by

Wilks, Yorick. 1982. Comments on Clark and Carlson's paper. In Smith, Neil V., ed. Mutual knowledge. Academic Press. pp. 38–39.

Johnson-Laird, Philip N. 1982. Mutual ignorance: Comments on Clark and Carlson's paper. In Smith, Neil V., ed. Mutual knowledge. Academic Press. pp. 40–45.

Sperber, Dan. 1982. Comments on Clark and Carlson's paper. In Smith, Neil V., ed. Mutual knowledge. Academic Press. pp. 46–51.