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Publication details [#27911]

Récanati, François. 1996. Domains of discourse. Linguistics and Philosophy 19 (4) : 445–475.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | discourse | semantics1

Place, Publisher

Kluwer

ISBN

0165-0157

Journal WWW

www.kluweronline.com/

Annotation

This paper argues that Austinian semantics, with its appeal to contextually variable discourse domains, satisfies the desiderata which the standard alternatives of the ellipsis and Gricean theory do not satisfy. It also discusses objections allegedly raised by the Austinian view.