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Cole, Peter. 1975. Referential opacity, attributiveness, and the performative hypothesis. Papers from the Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 11 : 672–686.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English

Annotation

C. claims that two allegedly independent ambiguities of definite descriptions, viz. referentiality-attributiveness and transparency-opacity, are in fact one single ambiguity viewed from two perspectives, and that they can be unified on the basis of the performative hypothesis and the relative scope analysis.