Publications

Publication details [#2823]

Dretske, Fred I. 1977. Referring to events. Mid-West Studies in Philosophy 2 : 90–99.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

event | intonation | meaning | reference

Annotation

D. addresses the issue of why and how such pragmatic factors as stress, pitch and intonation influence the meaning of what we say. He argues that the fundamental explanation of this phenomenon lies in the peculiar way we have of referring to events.

Reviewed by

Kim, Jaegwon. 1977. Causation, emphasis, and events.

Reprints

French, Peter A., Theodore E. Uehling and Howard K. Wettstein. 1979. In French, Peter A., Theodore E. Uehling and Howard K. Wettstein, eds. Contemporary perspectives in the philosophy of language. Minnesota UP. pp. 369–378.