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Publication details [#4404]
Harris, Roy J. 1977. Semantics, performatives and truth. Journal of Literary Semantics 6 (2) : 63–75. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Journal WWW
Annotation
With special reference to performative utterances H. tries to demonstrate that burdening the notion of truth with too much explanatory value prevents it from playing its proper role in the semantic description of natural language.