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Publication details [#23419]

Grewendorf, Günther. 1984. On the delimitation of semantics and pragmatics: The case of assertions. Journal of Pragmatics 8 (4) : 517–538.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

delimitation of pragmatics | meaning theory | truth-conditional semantics

Journal WWW

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Annotation

Pragmatics is defined as linguistic action, and semantics as the theory of truth-conditions. On this basis, it is illustrated how pragmatic factors condition the semantics of sentential meanings.