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Publication details [#4850]
Holdcroft, David. 1981. Principles of conversation, speech acts, and radical interpretation. In Parret, Herman and Jacques Bouveresse, eds. Meaning and understanding. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 184–203. 
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Person as a subject
Annotation
A general discussion of D.Davidson's theory of radical interpretation. H. criticizes it, and proposes that a theory of interpretation needs to be supplemented by a theory of speech acts and a theory of conversation.