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Publication details [#25543]

Beun, Robbert-Jan. 1994. Mental state recognition and communicative effects. Journal of Pragmatics 21 (2) : 191–214.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative effect | intention, comprehension of | mental state | speaker meaning | speech act

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper proposes a framework for deriving a speaker's intentions and beliefs from a certain speech act, stating that successful communication depends upon the hearer's recognition of the felicity conditions of the communicative act.